Activity of Attack Sources Ongoing monitoring of attack sources reveals that 90% of them were active for no longer than 10 days. There were two reasons behind this. For one thing, in order to keep attack sources freshand prevent them from being blacklisted by defenders, attackers tended to use the hit-and-run strategy. For the other, […]
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 April 26, 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 […]
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 April 19, 2020.
Controlled DDoS Attack Sources According to statistics, China was still home to the largest number of controlled DDoS attack sources (36.19%) in 2019, followed by the USA and UK. Although China’s ranking remained unchanged in terms of the number, the proportion decreased compared with 2018. This indicates that China’s DDoS governance and defenses have yielded […]
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 April 12, 2020.
Attack Distribution by Duration In 2019, the average duration of DDoS attacks was registered at 52 minutes, an 18% increase from 2018. We noticed that the longest DDoS attack in 2019 lasted around 20 days, far longer than attacks detected in previous years. In 2019, a DDoS attacks lasting less than 30 minutes accounted for […]
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 April 05, 2020.
DDoS Attack Type Analysis Proportions of Different Attack Types In 2019, most frequently seen attacks were UDP floods, SYN floods, and ACK floods, which together accounted for 82% of all DDoS attacks. By contrast, reflection attacks took up only 10%. Compared with 2018, reflection attacks rose slightly in number, but remained small in proportion.
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 March 29, 2020.
DDoS Attack Counts and Peak Sizes Distribution of Peak Sizes From the monthly data in the last three years, the number of large-scale attacks (> 100 Gbps) soared in 2018 and then fluctuated at a high level over a two-year period. In 2017, the number of such attacks reached 11,800, only 48% of the number […]
