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Hong Kong

The threat of DDoS attacks is constantly changing in Hong Kong, making it important to have continuous monitoring and analysis in place. NETSCOUT conducts ongoing monitoring by utilizing our global threat analysis and collection platform, ATLAS. This platform allows us to automate country-level analytics and drill down into regional and country-level statistics to identify trends in near real-time. The country-level analytics presented on our page include top vectors used in DDoS attacks, top targeted industries, and various benchmarks for the specified period of time.

Max Multivector Attack

Max number of vectors seen in a single attack

22

Attack Vectors Used

1. Bittorrent Amplification
2. Chargen Amplification
3. DNS Amplification
4. ICMP
5. L2TP Amplification
6. mDNS Amplification
7. memcached Amplification
8. MS SQL RS Amplification
9. NetBIOS Amplification
10. NTP Amplification
11. RDP Amplification
12. RIPv1 Amplification
13. rpcbind Amplification
14. SNMP Amplification
15. SSDP Amplification
16. STUN Amplification
17. TCP ACK
18. TCP RST
19. TCP SYN
20. TCP SYN/ACK Amplification
21. UDP
22. Unreal-tournament Amplification

Top Attack Vectors

Ts

TCP SYN

Number of Attacks

71,103

Ta

TCP ACK

Number of Attacks

38,273

Tr

TCP RST

Number of Attacks

32,387

Ss

SSDP Amp

Number of Attacks

25,355

Im

ICMP

Number of Attacks

19,746

Top Ten Vertical Industries Under Attack

The following industry chart shows the most targeted sectors in 2H 2022 by number of attacks.

Rank Vertical Frequency Max Attack Max Impact Average Duration
1
Data Processing Hosting and Related Services
10,818 137.31 Gbps 121.58 Mpps 23 Minutes
2
Electronic Computer Manufacturing
4,926 266.8 Gbps 99.41 Mpps 23 Minutes
3
Wired Telecommunications Carriers
3,958 166.11 Gbps 74.73 Mpps 54 Minutes
4
All Other Support Services
3,146 0.5 Gbps 1.07 Mpps 172 Minutes
5
Electronic Shopping and Mail-Order Houses
864 84.73 Gbps 33.78 Mpps 37 Minutes
6
Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals
352 57.36 Gbps 43.19 Mpps 51 Minutes
7
Offices of Optometrists
277 34.88 Gbps 35.02 Mpps 46 Minutes
8
Telecommunications Resellers Telecommunications Resellers
147 82.37 Gbps 34.01 Mpps 11 Minutes
9
All Other Telecommunications
15 19.4 Gbps 34.3 Mpps 20 Minutes
10
Other Motion Picture and Video Industries
3 0.18 Gbps 0.09 Mpps 26 Minutes