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Vietnam

Vietnam experiences DDoS attacks of all shapes and sizes across a wide variety of industries. Several attack vectors are used to target Vietnamese service providers, enterprises, and government entities. NETSCOUT’s country-level analytics, powered by ATLAS, drill down into the most common vectors used and types of industries targeted in DDoS attacks in Vietnam. It also contains various benchmarks for the duration of this report.

Max Multivector Attack

Max number of vectors seen in a single attack

28

Attack Vectors Used

1. ARMS Amplification
2. Bittorrent Amplification
3. Chargen Amplification
4. CLDAP Amplification
5. COAP Amplification
6. DHCP Discovery Amplification
7. DNS Amplification
8. HTTP(s) Incoming
9. ICMP
10. MS SQL RS Amplification
11. NetBIOS Amplification
12. NTP Amplification
13. OpenVPN Amplification
14. RDP Amplification
15. RIPv1 Amplification
16. rpcbind Amplification
17. Slowloris/Pyloris
18. SNMP Amplification
19. SSDP Amplification
20. STUN Amplification
21. TCP null
22. TCP PSH
23. TCP SYN
24. TCP SYN/ACK Amplification
25. UDP
26. UDP-80 Incoming
27. VSE Amplification
28. WS-DD Amplification

Top Attack Vectors

Ta

TCP ACK

Number of Attacks

11,630

Ts

TCP SYN

Number of Attacks

4,522

Dn

DNS Amp

Number of Attacks

4,317

Np

NTP Amp

Number of Attacks

3,090

Im

ICMP

Number of Attacks

2,575

Top Five 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
14,229 263.75 Gbps 52.15 Mpps 37 Minutes
2
Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals
402 26.5 Gbps 11.49 Mpps 12 Minutes
3
cell phone icon Wireless Telecommunications Carriers (except Satellite)
213 25.1 Gbps 2.1 Mpps 16 Minutes
4
Data Processing Hosting and Related Services
33 15.19 Gbps 8.63 Mpps 34 Minutes
5
Legislative Bodies
3 4.05 Gbps 0.6 Mpps 4 Minutes