South Africa
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, 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
22
Attack Vectors Used
1. ARMS Amplification
2. CLDAP Amplification
3. COAP Amplification
4. DNS Amplification
5. ICMP
6. L2TP Amplification
7. MS SQL RS Amplification
8. NTP Amplification
9. NetBIOS Amplification
10. RIPv1 Amplification
11. SNMP Amplification
12. SSDP Amplification
13. TCP ACK
14. TCP SYN/ACK Amplification
15. UDP
16. WS-DD Amplification
17. chargen Amplification
18. mDNS Amplification
19. memcached Amplification
20. rpcbind Amplification
Top Attack Vectors
Ta
TCP ACK
Number of Attacks
40,096
Dn
DNS Amp
Number of Attacks
36,370
Ds
DNS
Number of Attacks
31,014
Tr
TCP RST
Number of Attacks
23,958
Tk
TCP SYN/ACK Amp
Number of Attacks
22,185
Top Nine Vertical Industries Under Attack
The following industry chart shows the most targeted sectors in 2H 2023 by number of attacks.
| Rank | Vertical | Frequency | Max Attack | Max Impact | Average Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
 Other Computer Related Services
|
29,726 | 999.44 Gbps | 83.26 Mpps | 94 Minutes |
| 2 |
 Insurance Agencies and Brokerages
|
14,878 | 113.84 Gbps | 14.05 Mpps | 12 Minutes |
| 3 |
 Wireless Telecommunications Carriers (except Satellite)
|
13,601 | 117.72 Gbps | 32.61 Mpps | 25 Minutes |
| 4 |
 Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services
|
1,281 | 152.52 Gbps | 12.88 Mpps | 534 Minutes |
| 5 |
 Beauty Salons
|
923 | 4.63 Gbps | 0.45 Mpps | 5 Minutes |
| 6 |
 Wired Telecommunications Carriers
|
816 | 45.68 Gbps | 60.83 Mpps | 24 Minutes |
| 7 |
 Electronic Computer Manufacturing
|
767 | 2.89 Gbps | 0.4 Mpps | 312 Minutes |
| 8 |
 Telecommunications Resellers
|
547 | 43.23 Gbps | 10.68 Mpps | 7 Minutes |
| 9 |
 All Other Support Services
|
220 | 0.21 Gbps | 0.37 Mpps | 63 Minutes |