Europe, Middle East, and Africa
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United Arab Emirates

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

19

Attack Vectors Used

1. CLDAP Amplification
2. DNS
3. DNS Amplification
4. ICMP
5. L2TP Amplification
6. MS SQL RS Amplification
7. NetBIOS Amplification
8. RIPv1 Amplification
9. SNMP Amplification
10. SSDP Amplification
11. TCP ACK
12. TCP RST
13. TCP SYN
14. TCP SYN/ACK Amplification
15. UDP
16. chargen Amplification
17. mDNS Amplification
18. memcached Amplification
19. rpcbind Amplification

Top Attack Vectors

Tr

TCP RST

Number of Attacks

5,776

Sp

SIP Amp

Number of Attacks

4,292

Mq

MSSQLRS Amp

Number of Attacks

3,790

Im

ICMP

Number of Attacks

3,277

Mc

Memcached Amp

Number of Attacks

3,167

Top Ten Vertical Industries Under Attack

The following industry chart shows the most targeted sectors in 1H 2023 by number of attacks.

Rank Vertical Frequency Max Attack Max Impact Average Duration
1
Wired Telecommunications Carriers
783 11.61 Gbps 5.77 Mpps 10 Minutes
2
Custom Computer Programming Services
461 13.17 Gbps 1.33 Mpps 8 Minutes
3
Data Processing Hosting and Related Services
398 13.21 Gbps 4.32 Mpps 278 Minutes
4
Computer Storage Device Manufacturing
98 24.3 Gbps 2.31 Mpps 20 Minutes
5
Electronic Computer Manufacturing
67 7.99 Gbps 7.64 Mpps 10 Minutes
6
Industrial Supplies Merchant Wholesalers
35 7.09 Gbps 1.04 Mpps 5 Minutes
7
All Other Telecommunications
32 7.63 Gbps 0.73 Mpps 127 Minutes
8
Telecommunications Resellers Telecommunications Resellers
26 0.01 Gbps 0.03 Mpps 22 Minutes
9
Electronic Shopping and Mail-Order Houses
24 7.55 Gbps 0.72 Mpps 336 Minutes
10
Software Publishers
1 0.4 Gbps 0.11 Mpps 5 Minutes