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. COAP Amplification
3. DNS
4. DNS Amplification
5. ICMP
6. IPMI Amplification
7. L2TP Amplification
8. NTP Amplification
9. NetBIOS Amplification
10. OpenVPN Amplification
11. RDP Amplification
12. SNMP Amplification
13. SSDP Amplification
14. TCP ACK
15. TCP RST
16. TCP SYN
17. TCP SYN/ACK Amplification
18. UDP
19. Ubiquiti Amplification
20. VSE Amplification
21. WS-DD Amplification
22. chargen Amplification
23. mDNS Amplification
24. rpcbind Amplification
Top Attack Vectors
Dn
DNS Amp
Number of Attacks
41,152
Ta
TCP ACK
Number of Attacks
20,503
Ts
TCP SYN
Number of Attacks
18,604
Tr
TCP RST
Number of Attacks
17,354
Tk
TCP SYN/ACK Amp
Number of Attacks
16,934
Top Ten Vertical Industries Under Attack
The following industry chart shows the most targeted sectors in 1H 2024 by number of attacks.
| Rank | Vertical | Frequency | Max Attack | Max Impact | Average Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Wired Telecommunications Carriers
|
35,188 | 225.41 Gbps | 35.08 Mpps | 52 Minutes |
| 2 |
Wireless Telecommunications Carriers (except Satellite)
|
10,682 | 312.18 Gbps | 63.06 Mpps | 15 Minutes |
| 3 |
All Other Telecommunications
|
6,787 | 161.75 Gbps | 15.56 Mpps | 65 Minutes |
| 4 |
Computing Infrastructure Providers Data Processing Web Hosting and Related Services
|
5,727 | 111.73 Gbps | 15.89 Mpps | 27 Minutes |
| 5 |
Data Processing Hosting and Related Services
|
5,257 | 61.14 Gbps | 9.16 Mpps | 23 Minutes |
| 6 |
Industrial Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers
|
654 | 18.52 Gbps | 3.09 Mpps | 10 Minutes |
| 7 |
Television Broadcasting Stations
|
381 | 1.45 Gbps | 0.14 Mpps | 6 Minutes |
| 8 |
Commercial and Institutional Building Construction
|
277 | 6.19 Gbps | 0.58 Mpps | 26 Minutes |
| 9 |
Colleges Universities and Professional Schools
|
176 | 12.03 Gbps | 0.59 Mpps | 5 Minutes |
| 10 |
Computing Infrastructure Providers Data Processing Web Hosting and Related Services, Data Processing Hosting and Related Services
|
166 | 38.81 Gbps | 3.76 Mpps | 9 Minutes |