North America
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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, 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

27

Attack Vectors Used

1. ARMS Amplification
2. CLDAP Amplification
3. COAP Amplification
4. DNS
5. DNS Amplification
6. ICMP
7. MS SQL RS Amplification
8. NTP Amplification
9. NetBIOS Amplification
10. RDP Amplification
11. RIPv1 Amplification
12. SNMP Amplification
13. SSDP Amplification
14. STUN Amplification
15. TCP ACK
16. TCP RST
17. TCP SYN
18. TCP SYN/ACK Amplification
19. TCP null
20. TFTP Amplification
21. UDP
22. WS-DD Amplification
23. chargen Amplification
24. mDNS Amplification
25. rpcbind Amplification

Top Attack Vectors

Ta

TCP ACK

Number of Attacks

317,688

Dn

DNS Amp

Number of Attacks

311,506

Im

ICMP

Number of Attacks

203,720

Ts

TCP SYN

Number of Attacks

164,302

Ds

DNS

Number of Attacks

137,293

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
549,110 911.19 Gbps 106.78 Mpps 24 Minutes
2
Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services
179,598 765.59 Gbps 542.68 Mpps 41 Minutes
3
Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals
48,328 291.67 Gbps 434.74 Mpps 102 Minutes
4
All Other Telecommunications
37,546 184.73 Gbps 53.64 Mpps 45 Minutes
5
cell phone icon Wireless Telecommunications Carriers (except Satellite)
35,391 149.38 Gbps 26.81 Mpps 49 Minutes
6
Hobby, Toy, and Game Stores
30,533 216.36 Gbps 47.55 Mpps 160 Minutes
7
Security Guards and Patrol Services
22,472 651.22 Gbps 177.38 Mpps 56 Minutes
8
Electronic Computer Manufacturing
16,200 55.22 Gbps 5.09 Mpps 83 Minutes
9
Satellite Telecommunications
7,277 84.7 Gbps 11.29 Mpps 7 Minutes
10
Computer Terminal and Other Computer Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing Computer Terminal and Other Computer Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing
6,586 285.04 Gbps 45.29 Mpps 42 Minutes