Tag: Cybersecurity Insights

Analysis of IoT Attack Sources From NSFOCUS's IoT threat intelligence, we can associate DDoS attack events with IoT devices. Further analysis of IoT devices compared to source IP addresses of DDoS attacks found that 3.14% of DDoS attackers are IoT devices. Though this proportion is relatively small, the number of...

6.3 Worm In the 2018 H1 Cybersecurity Insights , we pointed out that most worm viruses were discovered more than five years ago. This indicates how capable these viruses are of propagating and evolving and how difficult it is to remove them completely from the network. According to data throughout...

Backdoor, cryptominer, worm, trojan, and zombie115 made the list of active most malware in 2018. Strains of backdoors malware are still extremely active because they are too stealthy to be easily detected. As the virtual currency market continues to shrink, cryptomining is less popular than before, but still very active,...

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...

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...

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...