United States of America
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, 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. Bittorrent Amplification
2. CLDAP Amplification
3. DNS
4. DNS Amplification
5. ICMP
6. ISAKMP
7. L2TP Amplification
8. MS SQL RS Amplification
9. NTP Amplification
10. NetBIOS Amplification
11. SNMP Amplification
12. SSDP Amplification
13. STUN Amplification
14. Sentinel Amplification
15. TCP ACK
16. TCP RST
17. TCP SYN
18. TCP SYN/ACK Amplification
19. UDP
20. VSE Amplification
21. mDNS Amplification
22. memcached Amplification
23. rpcbind Amplification
Top Attack Vectors
Ta
TCP ACK
Number of Attacks
258,600
Im
ICMP
Number of Attacks
209,657
Dn
DNS Amplification
Number of Attacks
200,787
Tk
TCP SYN/ACK Amplification
Number of Attacks
143,116
Ts
TCP SYN
Number of Attacks
135,849
Top Ten Industries Under Attack
The following table lists the top vertical industries under attack from July 2025 to December 2025 by number of attacks.
| Rank | Vertical | Frequency | Average Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Wired Telecommunications Carriers
|
451,908 | 33 Minutes |
| 2 |
Computing Infrastructure Providers Data Processing Web Hosting and Related Services
|
165,440 | 45 Minutes |
| 3 |
All Other Telecommunications
|
71,435 | 43 Minutes |
| 4 |
Wireless Telecommunications Carriers (except Satellite)
|
61,399 | 103 Minutes |
| 5 |
Educational Support Services
|
47,264 | 66 Minutes |
| 6 |
Hobby Toy and Game Retailers
|
31,834 | 298 Minutes |
| 7 |
Media Streaming Distribution Services Social Networks and Other Media Networks and Content Providers
|
26,470 | 8 Minutes |
| 8 |
Satellite Telecommunications
|
24,422 | 15 Minutes |
| 9 |
Colleges Universities and Professional Schools
|
17,657 | 28 Minutes |
| 10 |
Computer Terminal and Other Computer Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing
|
15,105 | 100 Minutes |