United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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, most vectors used in an attack, and total attack frequency.
Max Multivector Attack
Max number of vectors seen in a single attack
25
Attack Vectors Used
1. ARMS Amplification
2. CLDAP Amplification
3. DHCP Discovery Amplification
4. DNS
5. DNS Amplification
6. ICMP
7. L2TP Amplification
8. MS SQL RS Amplification
9. NTP Amplification
10. NetBIOS Amplification
11. RDP Amplification
12. RIPv1 Amplification
13. SIP Amplification
14. SLP Amplification
15. SNMP Amplification
16. SSDP Amplification
17. TCP RST
18. UDP
19. WS-DD Amplification
20. chargen Amplification
21. mDNS Amplification
22. memcached Amplification
23. rpcbind Amplification
Top Attack Vectors
Dn
DNS Amplification
Number of Attacks
69,487
Ta
TCP ACK
Number of Attacks
35,143
Ds
DNS
Number of Attacks
25,230
Ts
TCP SYN
Number of Attacks
13,707
Tk
TCP SYN/ACK Amplification
Number of Attacks
8,521
Top Ten Industries Under Attack
The following table lists the top vertical industries under attack from January 2026 to June 2026 by number of attacks.
| Rank | Vertical | Frequency | Average Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Computing Infrastructure Providers Data Processing Web Hosting and Related Services
|
127,433 | 88 Minutes |
| 2 |
Wireless Telecommunications Carriers (except Satellite)
|
80,895 | 360 Minutes |
| 3 |
Wired Telecommunications Carriers
|
58,241 | 36 Minutes |
| 4 |
All Other Telecommunications
|
19,722 | 40 Minutes |
| 5 |
Software Publishers
|
1,055 | 10 Minutes |
| 6 |
Hobby Toy and Game Retailers
|
974 | 454 Minutes |
| 7 |
Miscellaneous Financial Investment Activities
|
361 | 27 Minutes |
| 8 |
Industrial Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers
|
319 | 14 Minutes |
| 9 |
Other Computer Related Services
|
287 | 18 Minutes |
| 10 |
Computer Storage Device Manufacturing
|
129 | 17 Minutes |