Research & Reports

IP Reputation Report-06072020

June 10, 2020 | Adeline Zhang

1.Top 10 countries in attack counts: The above diagram shows the top 10 regions with the most malicious IP addresses from the NSFOCUS IP Reputation databases at June 7, 2020. 2.Top 10 countries in attack percentage: The Belarus is in first place. The Cape Verde is in the second place. The country China (CN) is […]

IP Reputation Report-05312020

June 4, 2020 | Adeline Zhang

1. Top 10 countries in attack counts: The above diagram shows the top 10 regions with the most malicious IP addresses from the NSFOCUS IP Reputation databases at May 31, 2020. 2. Top 10 countries in attack percentage: The Belarus is in first place. The Cape Verde is in the second place. The country China […]

DDoS Attack Landscape 10

June 3, 2020 | Adeline Zhang

Active Families Gafgyt As one of the largest IoT DDoS families, Gafgyt compromises such devices as routers and cameras by means of password cracking and exploits to receive C&C commands and launch DDoS attacks. In 2019, the Gafgyt family continued to be active, mainly targeting North America, Europe, and Australia. The number of Gafgyt-based malware […]

IP Reputation Report-05242020

May 28, 2020 | Adeline Zhang

1. Top 10 countries in attack counts: The above diagram shows the top 10 regions with the most malicious IP addresses from the NSFOCUS IP Reputation databases at May 24, 2020. 2. Top 10 countries in attack percentage: The Belarus is in first place. The Cape Verde is in the second place. The country China […]

DDoS Attack Landscape 9

May 27, 2020 | Adeline Zhang

DDoS Botnets In 2019, NSFOCUS Security Labs detected over 400,000 DDoS attacks launched via botnets, a sharp increase compared with 2018 (8323 DDoS attacks). According to our observation, thebotnets running on IoT devices were mainly Mirai and Gafgyt families. These two families were exploited to launch over 60% of DDoS attacks in the first half […]

IP Reputation Report-05172020

May 21, 2020 | Adeline Zhang

1. Top 10 countries in attack counts: The above diagram shows the top 10 regions with the most malicious IP addresses from the NSFOCUS IP Reputation databases at May 17, 2020. 2. Top 10 countries in attack percentage: The Belarus is in first place. The Cape Verde is in the second place. The country China […]

DDoS Attack Landscape 8

May 20, 2020 | Adeline Zhang

Participation of IoT Devices in DDoS Attacks According to our observation, there were a total of more than 1,280,000 IP addresses of abnormal IoT devices around the world, accounting for 2.1% of all global IoT devices. Of all those abnormal IoT devices, 170,000 were involved in DDoS attacks, making up 13.08% of the total.

IP Reputation Report-05102020

May 14, 2020 | Adeline Zhang

1. Top 10 countries in attack counts: The above diagram shows the top 10 regions with the most malicious IP addresses from the NSFOCUS IP Reputation databases at May 10, 2020. 2. Top 10 countries in attack percentage: The Belarus is in first place. The Cape Verde is in the second place. The country China […]

DDoS Attack Landscape 7

May 13, 2020 | Adeline Zhang

Attack Gang Size Gang Size Figure 3-27 shows the distribution of our identified IP gangs by size. Two gangs consist of over 10,000 members and the largest gang has 88,000 members.

IP Reputation Report-05032020

May 7, 2020 | Adeline Zhang

Top 10 countries in attack counts: The above diagram shows the top 10 regions with the most malicious IP addresses from the NSFOCUS IP Reputation databases at May 3, 2020. Top 10 countries in attack percentage: The Belarus is in first place. The Cape Verde is in the second place. The country China (CN) is […]