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Malaysia

Keeping up with the latest trends in DDoS attacks is crucial for effective threat protection. NETSCOUT conducts ongoing monitoring of the global threat landscape by utilizing our global threat analysis and collection platform, ATLAS. This platform allows us to automate country-level analytics, like this report on Malaysia, 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

18

Attack Vectors Used

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

Top Attack Vectors

Ta

TCP ACK

Number of Attacks

57,815

Ts

TCP SYN

Number of Attacks

26,612

Ds

DNS

Number of Attacks

17,948

Tr

TCP RST

Number of Attacks

15,930

Dn

DNS Amp

Number of Attacks

7,728

Top Seven 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
Telecommunications Resellers Telecommunications Resellers
1,962 3.14 Gbps 0.97 Mpps 411 Minutes
2
All Other Professional Scientific and Technical Services
395 20.07 Gbps 2.26 Mpps 19 Minutes
3
Wired Telecommunications Carriers
47 16.31 Gbps 6.04 Mpps 5 Minutes
4
Electronic Shopping and Mail-Order Houses
16 1.97 Gbps 0.23 Mpps 7 Minutes
5
Data Processing Hosting and Related Services
9 2.31 Gbps 4.97 Mpps 5 Minutes
6
semiconductor icon Semiconductor and Related Device Manufacturing
2 0.77 Gbps 0.2 Mpps 34 Minutes
7
Tax-Preparation-Services Tax Preparation Services
1 0.17 Gbps 0.02 Mpps 331 Minutes