Executive Summary 2019 witnessed more intense challenges in global political and economic orders. Restricted by various conventions, agreements, and protocols, traditional military means are now the last resort. In this context, attacks on the financial sector and on the cyberspace become the first choices for rival countries to try on their modern military strategies. Predictably, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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.
