5.3.2 Attack Type Distribution In 2018, the most frequent attacks seen814 were SYN flood, UDP flood, ACK flood, HTTP flood and HTTPS flood attacks, which altogether accounted for 96% of all DDoS attacks. In contrast, reflection attackers contributed to no more than 3% of attacks. Compared with 2017, the year 2018 witnessed a 80% decrease […]
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 December 15, 2019.
5.3 DDoS Attacks 5.3.1 Attack Trend In 2018, we observed 148,000 DDoS attacks (down 28.4% from 2017), which generated a total of 643,100 TB of attack traffic, about the same volume as observed in 2017. This trend suggests that while the number of DDoS attacks is lower, the size of the attack are growing. Large […]
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 December 08, 2019.
5.2 Web Attacks 5.2.1 Trend of Web Attacks Of all attacks targeting web servers in 2018, 89% of them still employed common methods such as server information disclosure, resource leech, SQL injection, and cross-site scripting. Hackers are using an increasing number of web server or plug-in vulnerabilities. In 2018, vulnerability based web attacks 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 December 01, 2019.
Insights into Malicious Traffic 5.1 Vulnerability Exploitation Here we classify vulnerabilities into server vulnerabilities desktop application vulnerabilities device vulnerabilities
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 November 24, 2019. Top 10 countries in attack percentage: The Laos is in first place. The Uzbekistan is in the second place. The country China (CN) […]
4.2 Significant Increase in Device Vulnerabilities In the past few years, vulnerabilities associated with network devices have grown rapidly. This is because more network enabled devices of more diverse types are connecting to the network. The threat increases as device vendors do not take security seriously and are remiss in providing timely firmware updates. Thus, […]
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 November 17, 2019. Top 10 countries in attack percentage: The Laos is in first place. The Uzbekistan is in the second place. The country China (CN) is not […]
