South Africa
The DDoS threat landscape is constantly evolving, and to stay ahead of adversaries, ongoing monitoring and analysis are essential to detect how they are modifying their behavior and targets. NETSCOUT monitors the global threat landscape and drills into regional and country-level statistics to ensure that adversaries inform us of near-real-time trends. The country-level analytics featured on this page are automatically generated using our global threat analysis and collection platform, ATLAS, and provide a range of benchmarks for the specified time period, such as the top vectors used in DDoS attacks, top targeted industries, largest attack by bandwidth and throughput, most vectors used in an attack, and total attack frequency.
Max Multivector Attack
Max number of vectors seen in a single attack
23
Attack Vectors Used
1. COAP Amplification
2. DNS Amplification
3. ICMP
4. MS SQL RS Amplification
5. NTP Amplification
6. NetBIOS Amplification
7. RIPv1 Amplification
8. SLP Amplification
9. SNMP Amplification
10. SSDP Amplification
11. STUN Amplification
12. TCP ACK
13. TCP RST
14. TCP SYN
15. TCP SYN/ACK Amplification
16. TP240 Amplification
17. UDP
18. VSE Amplification
19. memcached Amplification
20. rpcbind Amplification
Top Attack Vectors
Ta
TCP ACK
Number of Attacks
57,277
Dn
DNS Amplification
Number of Attacks
37,421
Tk
TCP SYN/ACK Amplification
Number of Attacks
36,335
Tr
TCP RST
Number of Attacks
30,531
Ts
TCP SYN
Number of Attacks
20,424
Top Ten Vertical Industries Under Attack
The following table lists the top vertical industries under attack from July 2024 to December 2024 by number of attacks.
| Rank | Vertical | Frequency | Max Attack | Max Impact | Average Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Other Computer Related Services
|
27,346 | 210.65 Gbps | 20.38 Mpps | 87 Minutes |
| 2 |
Insurance Agencies and Brokerages
|
6,174 | 39.0 Gbps | 7.1 Mpps | 24 Minutes |
| 3 |
Computing Infrastructure Providers Data Processing Web Hosting and Related Services
|
3,400 | 84.0 Gbps | 12.9 Mpps | 630 Minutes |
| 4 |
Computer Systems Design Services
|
2,919 | 2.25 Gbps | 0.19 Mpps | 10 Minutes |
| 5 |
Wired Telecommunications Carriers
|
2,839 | 82.96 Gbps | 7.81 Mpps | 7 Minutes |
| 6 |
Electronic Computer Manufacturing
|
2,056 | 7.31 Gbps | 0.94 Mpps | 125 Minutes |
| 7 |
Wireless Telecommunications Carriers (except Satellite)
|
1,850 | 4.1 Gbps | 0.59 Mpps | 20 Minutes |
| 8 |
Portfolio Management and Investment Advice
|
1,445 | 2.05 Gbps | 0.18 Mpps | 26 Minutes |
| 9 |
All Other Telecommunications
|
893 | 12.67 Gbps | 4.1 Mpps | 5 Minutes |
| 10 |
Commercial Banking
|
520 | 13.35 Gbps | 2.77 Mpps | 98 Minutes |