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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

21

Attack Vectors Used

1. CLDAP Amplification
2. DNS Amplification
3. ICMP
4. L2TP Amplification
5. MS SQL RS Amplification
6. NetBIOS Amplification
7. QOTD Amplification
8. RIPv1 Amplification
9. SNMP Amplification
10. SSDP Amplification
11. TCP ACK
12. TCP RST
13. TCP SYN
14. TCP SYN/ACK Amplification
15. UDP
16. chargen Amplification
17. mDNS Amplification
18. memcached Amplification
19. rpcbind Amplification

Top Attack Vectors

Ta

TCP ACK

Number of Attacks

54,202

Dn

DNS Amp

Number of Attacks

26,314

Tk

TCP SYN/ACK Amp

Number of Attacks

14,467

Ts

TCP SYN

Number of Attacks

8,902

Im

ICMP

Number of Attacks

7,811

Top Ten Vertical Industries Under Attack

The following industry chart shows the most targeted sectors in 1H 2024 by number of attacks.

Rank Vertical Frequency Max Attack Max Impact Average Duration
1
Wired Telecommunications Carriers
68,810 167.56 Gbps 108.49 Mpps 16 Minutes
2
Data Processing Hosting and Related Services
19,849 152.83 Gbps 52.8 Mpps 22 Minutes
3
Computing Infrastructure Providers Data Processing Web Hosting and Related Services
5,250 276.83 Gbps 253.56 Mpps 29 Minutes
4
All Other Telecommunications
3,987 28.93 Gbps 2.76 Mpps 23 Minutes
5
Custom Computer Programming Services
576 1.74 Gbps 0.15 Mpps 9 Minutes
6
Other Computer Related Services
198 5.34 Gbps 3.27 Mpps 235 Minutes
7
Data Processing Hosting and Related Services, Wired Telecommunications Carriers
177 2.55 Gbps 0.21 Mpps 9 Minutes
8
Computer Terminal and Other Computer Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing
149 66.6 Gbps 7.28 Mpps 23 Minutes
9
Computing Infrastructure Providers Data Processing Web Hosting and Related Services, Data Processing Hosting and Related Services
116 28.07 Gbps 58.48 Mpps 9 Minutes
10
Colleges Universities and Professional Schools
88 11.63 Gbps 1 Mpps 12 Minutes