United States of America
Staying ahead of the United States’ dynamic DDoS threat landscape requires continuous monitoring and analysis to understand how adversaries change their tactics and targets. NETSCOUT monitors the global threat landscape and examines regional and country-level statistics to stay informed of near-real-time trends by adversaries. The country-level analytics presented on this page are automatically generated using our global threat analysis and collection platform, ATLAS, and feature various 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
28
Attack Vectors Used
1. ARMS Amplification
2. Chargen Amplification
3. CLDAP Amplification
4. COAP Amplification
5. DHCP Discovery Amplification
6. DNS
7. DNS Amplification
8. ICMP
9. L2TP Amplification
10. mDNS Amplification
11. Memcached Amplification
12. MS SQL RS Amplification
13. NetBIOS Amplification
14. NTP Amplification
15. RDP Amplification
16. RIPv1 Amplification
17. rpcbind Amplification
18. SNMP Amplification
19. SSDP Amplification
20. TCP ACK
21. TCP null
22. TCP RST
23. TCP SYN
24. TCP SYN/ACK Amplification
25. UDP
26. UDP Fragment
27. WS-DD Amplification
28. WS-Discovery Amplification
Top Attack Vectors
Ta
TCP ACK
Number of Attacks
277,860
Ts
TCP SYN
Number of Attacks
233,845
Dn
DNS Amp
Number of Attacks
211,994
Tr
TCP RST
Number of Attacks
185,440
Im
ICMP
Number of Attacks
173,695
Top Ten Vertical Industries Under Attack
The following industry chart shows the most targeted sectors in 2H 2022 by number of attacks.
| Rank | Vertical | Frequency | Max Attack | Max Impact | Average Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
 Wired Telecommunications Carriers
|
355,790 | 965.17 Gbps | 113.47 Mpps | 68 Minutes |
| 2 |
 Data Processing Hosting and Related Services
|
135,351 | 978.49 Gbps | 304.14 Mpps | 43 Minutes |
| 3 |
 Wireless Telecommunications Carriers (except Satellite)
|
66,071 | 991.2 Gbps | 273.16 Mpps | 57 Minutes |
| 4 |
 Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals
|
39,928 | 42.2 Gbps | 419.47 Mpps | 258 Minutes |
| 5 |
 Satellite Telecommunications
|
30,065 | 28.8 Gbps | 3.82 Mpps | 33 Minutes |
| 6 |
 All Other Professional Scientific and Technical Services
|
25,440 | 733.45 Gbps | 208.99 Mpps | 244 Minutes |
| 7 |
 Electronic Computer Manufacturing
|
20,520 | 332.2 Gbps | 39.64 Mpps | 28 Minutes |
| 8 |
 National Security
|
12,083 | 26.94 Gbps | 9.77 Mpps | 50 Minutes |
| 9 |
 Electronic Shopping and Mail-Order Houses
|
10,871 | 80.96 Gbps | 47.16 Mpps | 13 Minutes |
| 10 |
 Hobby Toy and Game Stores
|
9,200 | 67.7 Gbps | 16.81 Mpps | 105 Minutes |