Korea, Republic of
The complexity of the DDoS threat landscape in South Korea requires constant monitoring and analysis. NETSCOUT recognizes this and 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, including: the 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
19
Attack Vectors Used
1. Chargen Amplification
2. CLDAP Amplification
3. CoAP Amplification
4. DNS Amplification
5. Jenkins Amplification
6. L2TP Amplification
7. mDNS Amplification
8. memcached Amplification
9. MS SQL RS Amplification
10. NetBIOS Amplification
11. NTP Amplification
12. OpenVPN Amplification
13. RIPv1 Amplification
14. rpcbind Amplification
15. SNMP Amplification
16. SSDP Amplification
17. TP240 PhoneHome Amplification
18. UDP
19. WS-Discovery Amplification
Top Attack Vectors
Ta
TCP ACK
Number of Attacks
96,072
Tk
TCP SYN/ACK Amp
Number of Attacks
93,785
Ts
TCP SYN
Number of Attacks
85,410
Tr
TCP RST
Number of Attacks
63,876
Im
ICMP
Number of Attacks
46,478
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 |
 Wired Telecommunications Carriers
|
122,850 | 398.42 Gbps | 58.72 Mpps | 128 Minutes |
| 2 |
 Wireless Telecommunications Carriers (except Satellite)
|
6,148 | 72.88 Gbps | 8.67 Mpps | 5 Minutes |
| 3 |
 Electronics Stores
|
4,893 | 1.04 Gbps | 0.75 Mpps | 8 Minutes |
| 4 |
 Electronic Computer Manufacturing
|
1,949 | 37.11 Gbps | 19.34 Mpps | 49 Minutes |
| 5 |
 Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals
|
604 | 41.63 Gbps | 61.28 Mpps | 22 Minutes |
| 6 |
 Electronic Shopping and Mail-Order Houses
|
441 | 7.91 Gbps | 3.03 Mpps | 11 Minutes |
| 7 |
 Data Processing Hosting and Related Services
|
183 | 18.32 Gbps | 10.33 Mpps | 12 Minutes |
| 8 |
 Other Electronic Component Manufacturing
|
155 | 5.94 Gbps | 2.72 Mpps | 32 Minutes |
| 9 |
 Computer Storage Device Manufacturing
|
132 | 16.59 Gbps | 3.7 Mpps | 9 Minutes |
| 10 |
 All Other Professional Scientific and Technical Services
|
91 | 1.5 Gbps | 0.28 Mpps | 10 Minutes |