Europe, Middle East, and Africa
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Iran (Islamic Republic of)

To stay ahead of the constantly evolving DDoS threat landscape in Iran, it is necessary to maintain a constant approach to monitoring and analysis to understand how adversaries are altering their behavior and targets. NETSCOUT actively monitors the global threat landscape and analyzes regional and country-level statistics to track near-real-time trends by adversaries. The country-level analytics presented on this page are automatically generated using our global threat analysis and collection platform, ATLAS, and provide various benchmarks for the specified time period, such as the top vectors used in DDoS attacks, top targeted industries, 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

11

Attack Vectors Used

1. DNS Amplification
2. L2TP Amplification
3. mDNS Amplification
4. memcached Amplification
5. MS SQL RS Amplification
6. NetBIOS Amplification
7. NTP Amplification
8. RIPv1 Amplification
9. SNMP Amplification
10. SSDP Amplification
11. UDP

Top Three 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
cell phone icon Wireless Telecommunications Carriers (except Satellite)
40 8.04 Gbps 2.22 Mpps 23 Minutes
2
Marketing Research and Public Opinion Polling
4 0.12 Gbps 0.02 Mpps 39 Minutes
3
All Other Telecommunications
1 1.44 Gbps 0.38 Mpps 7 Minutes