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, 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
26
Attack Vectors Used
1. ARMS Amplification
2. CLDAP Amplification
3. COAP Amplification
4. DNS
5. DNS Amplification
6. ICMP
7. ISAKMP
8. MS SQL RS Amplification
9. NTP Amplification
10. NetBIOS Amplification
11. OpenVPN Amplification
12. RIPv1 Amplification
13. SNMP Amplification
14. SSDP Amplification
15. STUN Amplification
16. TCP ACK
17. TCP SYN
18. TCP SYN/ACK Amplification
19. UDP
20. WS-DD Amplification
21. chargen Amplification
22. mDNS Amplification
23. memcached Amplification
24. rpcbind Amplification
Top Attack Vectors
Dn
DNS Amp
Number of Attacks
41,608
Ts
TCP SYN
Number of Attacks
19,914
Ta
TCP ACK
Number of Attacks
18,379
Tr
TCP RST
Number of Attacks
17,908
Ds
DNS
Number of Attacks
15,649
Top Ten 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 |
 Wired Telecommunications Carriers
|
42,212 | 399.58 Gbps | 36.05 Mpps | 36 Minutes |
| 2 |
 Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services
|
13,983 | 605.33 Gbps | 60.59 Mpps | 23 Minutes |
| 3 |
 Wireless Telecommunications Carriers (except Satellite)
|
13,810 | 328.8 Gbps | 40.8 Mpps | 19 Minutes |
| 4 |
 All Other Telecommunications
|
5,592 | 258.12 Gbps | 30.54 Mpps | 41 Minutes |
| 5 |
 Commercial and Institutional Building Construction
|
512 | 4.4 Gbps | 0.72 Mpps | 68 Minutes |
| 6 |
 Insurance Agencies and Brokerages
|
395 | 5.95 Gbps | 0.5 Mpps | 4 Minutes |
| 7 |
 Industrial Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers
|
293 | 9.56 Gbps | 1.03 Mpps | 8 Minutes |
| 8 |
 Credit Card Issuing
|
140 | 496.31 Gbps | 59.01 Mpps | 13 Minutes |
| 9 |
 Support Activities for Animal Production
|
131 | 0.3 Gbps | 0.03 Mpps | 7 Minutes |
| 10 |
 New Car Dealers
|
113 | 5.71 Gbps | 0.84 Mpps | 31 Minutes |