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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

24

Attack Vectors Used

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

Top Attack Vectors

Ta

TCP ACK

Number of Attacks

126,227

Dn

DNS Amplification

Number of Attacks

26,012

Ts

TCP SYN

Number of Attacks

19,970

Tr

TCP RST

Number of Attacks

15,282

Tk

TCP SYN/ACK Amplification

Number of Attacks

12,874

Top Seven Vertical Industries Under Attack

The following table lists the top vertical industries under attack from July 2024 to December 2024 by number of attacks.

Rank Vertical Frequency Max Attack Max Impact Average Duration
1
Wired Telecommunications Carriers
162,587 379.66 Gbps 92.46 Mpps 33 Minutes
2
Computing Infrastructure Providers Data Processing Web Hosting and Related Services
10,104 289.22 Gbps 98.41 Mpps 57 Minutes
3
All Other Telecommunications
5,217 916.09 Gbps 104.85 Mpps 28 Minutes
4
Clothing and Clothing Accessories Retailers
761 0.01 Gbps 0.02 Mpps 12 Minutes
5
Custom Computer Programming Services
679 5.31 Gbps 0.44 Mpps 9 Minutes
6
Colleges Universities and Professional Schools
431 35.95 Gbps 3.57 Mpps 15 Minutes
7
Satellite Telecommunications
369 1.42 Gbps 0.17 Mpps 22 Minutes