Evolution of the Internet and Accompanying Cyber Threats The fast growth of the Internet has brought constant changes to our lives. More than a decade ago, the egress bandwidth of 100 Mbps was available only to a small number of users, but today links with Tbps-level bandwidths are nothing unusual....
Tag: DDoS attack
DDoS Attack Misinterpretations
River blockage used to be a great survival crisis in ancient times. Similarly in cyberspace, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have become a devastating disaster. As we all know, DDoS attacks are destructive attacks and after over 10 years of evolution, such attacks have become an effective attack tool favored by...
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3.6Â Industrial Distribution of Attack Targets From an industry perspective, cloud service/Internet data center (IDC), gaming, and e-commerce are top 3 industries suffering the most DDoS attacks. (more…)
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3.4Â Behavioral Analysis of Attack Sources In the 2018 H1 Cybersecurity Insights8, we mentioned that the number of DDoS recidivists (repeat DDoS offenders) was too large to ignore. Of all internet attack types, 25% of attackers were recidivists responsible for 40% of all attack events. As for DDoS attacks, 7%...
2018 DDoS Attack Landscape-5
3.3 DDoS Attack Duration 3.3.1 Attack Duration Distribution In 2018, the average duration of a DDoS attack was 42 minutes, down 17% from 2017. This indicates that DDoS attacks were upgraded in industrialization, weaponization, and efficiency and DDoS-as-aService gained momentum for fast growth. We noticed that the longest DDoS attack...
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Analysis of DDoS Attacks in 2018 3.1Â DDoS Attack Count and Peak Size 3.1.1Â Attack Count and Traffic In 2018, we observed 148,000 DDoS attacks (down 28.4% from 2017), which generated a total of 643,100 TB of traffic, about the same level as in 2017. DDoS attacks keep expanding in...
