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
26
Attack Vectors Used
1. ARMS Amplification
2. CLDAP Amplification
3. DHCP Discovery Amplification
4. DNS
5. DNS Amplification
6. ICMP
7. IPMI Amplification
8. NTP Amplification
9. NetBIOS Amplification
10. SLP Amplification
11. SNMP Amplification
12. TCP ACK
13. TCP RST
14. TCP SYN
15. TCP SYN/ACK Amplification
16. TFTP Amplification
17. UDP
18. VSE Amplification
19. WS-DD Amplification
20. chargen Amplification
21. mDNS Amplification
22. memcached Amplification
23. rpcbind Amplification
Top Attack Vectors
Im
ICMP
Number of Attacks
316,610
Ta
TCP ACK
Number of Attacks
255,553
Dn
DNS Amplification
Number of Attacks
225,187
Ts
TCP SYN
Number of Attacks
203,870
Tr
TCP RST
Number of Attacks
133,539
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 |
Wired Telecommunications Carriers
|
524,445 | 936.57 Gbps | 196.76 Mpps | 33 Minutes |
| 2 |
Computing Infrastructure Providers Data Processing Web Hosting and Related Services
|
197,221 | 941.22 Gbps | 540.43 Mpps | 60 Minutes |
| 3 |
Educational Support Services
|
120,534 | 36.83 Gbps | 7.17 Mpps | 98 Minutes |
| 4 |
All Other Telecommunications
|
76,167 | 152.95 Gbps | 25.29 Mpps | 94 Minutes |
| 5 |
Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services
|
73,207 | 517.02 Gbps | 25.94 Mpps | 78 Minutes |
| 6 |
Colleges Universities and Professional Schools
|
25,306 | 107.62 Gbps | 10.45 Mpps | 79 Minutes |
| 7 |
Wireless Telecommunications Carriers (except Satellite)
|
24,433 | 118.77 Gbps | 15.25 Mpps | 86 Minutes |
| 8 |
Hobby Toy and Game Retailers
|
19,610 | 369.36 Gbps | 189.07 Mpps | 383 Minutes |
| 9 |
Computer Terminal and Other Computer Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing
|
12,358 | 253.87 Gbps | 95.72 Mpps | 72 Minutes |
| 10 |
Security Guards and Patrol Services
|
11,333 | 886.13 Gbps | 109.23 Mpps | 42 Minutes |