Huge increase in DDoS attacks in 2016
Akamai has released its Q3 2016 State of the Internet Security Report, which shows a huge increase in DDoS attacks across the world.
The report uses data gathered from the Akamai Intelligent Platform and provides an analysis of the current cloud security and threat landscape.
The report stated that looking at Q3 in 2016 versus the same period in 2015, there has been a 71% increase in total DDoS attacks.
The largest attack of Q3 2016 measured 623Gbps. The biggest attack in Q3 2015 was 149Gbps.
There was a 77% increase in recorded infrastructure layer (layer 3 and 4) attacks, and a 138% increase in attacks over 100Gbps.
Web application attacks
Total web application attacks decreased by 18% compared to the same period in 2015, while there was a 21% increase in SQLi attacks.
The United States saw a 67% decrease in attacks sourcing from the country compared to Q3 2015, and a 13% decrease compared to Q2 2016.
The US, however, is now the top source country for web application attacks.
Brazil, which was the previous top source country, experienced a 79% decrease in attacks sourcing from it compared to Q2 2016.
Story of the quarter
“Without a doubt, the attacks on the site of cybersecurity writer and blogger Brian Krebs (www.krebsonsecurity.com) were the biggest story of the quarter,” said Akamai.
“The site had been protected pro bono by Akamai’s Prolexic network since July 2012 and found itself on the receiving end of a 623Gbps attack on 20 September 2016.”
“This was the biggest attack Akamai had ever mitigated to that point.”
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