United States of America
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
28
Attack Vectors Used
1. ARMS Amplification
2. CLDAP Amplification
3. Citrix-ICA Amplification
4. DHCP Discovery Amplification
5. DNS Amplification
6. ICMP
7. IPMI Amplification
8. L2TP Amplification
9. MS SQL RS Amplification
10. NTP Amplification
11. NetBIOS Amplification
12. RIPv1 Amplification
13. SLP Amplification
14. SNMP Amplification
15. SSDP Amplification
16. Sentinel Amplification
17. TCP ACK
18. TCP RST
19. TCP SYN
20. TCP SYN/ACK Amplification
21. TFTP Amplification
22. UDP
23. Ubiquiti Amplification
24. WS-DD Amplification
25. mDNS Amplification
26. memcached Amplification
27. rpcbind Amplification
Top Attack Vectors
Ta
TCP ACK
Number of Attacks
309,872
Dn
DNS Amp
Number of Attacks
305,793
Im
ICMP
Number of Attacks
220,766
Ts
TCP SYN
Number of Attacks
172,317
Ds
DNS
Number of Attacks
144,317
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
|
512,812 | 939.43 Gbps | 314.41 Mpps | 34 Minutes |
| 2 |
All Other Telecommunications
|
126,112 | 568.44 Gbps | 335.49 Mpps | 43 Minutes |
| 3 |
Data Processing Hosting and Related Services
|
105,519 | 536.93 Gbps | 187.87 Mpps | 36 Minutes |
| 4 |
Computing Infrastructure Providers Data Processing Web Hosting and Related Services
|
83,250 | 555.17 Gbps | 293.4 Mpps | 32 Minutes |
| 5 |
Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals
|
46,281 | 365 Gbps | 104.59 Mpps | 78 Minutes |
| 6 |
Wireless Telecommunications Carriers (except Satellite)
|
45,450 | 126.04 Gbps | 280.85 Mpps | 38 Minutes |
| 7 |
Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services
|
32,077 | 94.43 Gbps | 186.18 Mpps | 9 Minutes |
| 8 |
Computer Terminal and Other Computer Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing
|
10,979 | 804.86 Gbps | 90.6 Mpps | 65 Minutes |
| 9 |
Educational Support Services
|
10,522 | 238.37 Gbps | 19.99 Mpps | 172 Minutes |
| 10 |
Hobby Toy and Game Stores
|
10,061 | 292.61 Gbps | 45.66 Mpps | 598 Minutes |