{"id":125080,"date":"2015-05-08T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T10:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=125080"},"modified":"2015-05-08T12:04:43","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T10:04:43","slug":"top-internet-attack-traffic-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/125080-top-internet-attack-traffic-revealed.html","title":{"rendered":"Top Internet attack traffic revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Akamai recently\u00a0released its Q4 2014 State of the Internet report, which shows that Telnet is the most targeted Internet attack port – with most attack traffic originating in\u00a0China.<\/p>\n

Akamai maintains a distributed set of agents deployed across the Internet that monitor attack traffic.<\/p>\n

Based on data collected by these agents, Akamai is able to identify the countries from which attack traffic originates, as well as the ports targeted by these attacks.<\/p>\n

During Q4 2014, Akamai observed attack traffic originating from 199 countries, in line with the 201 seen in the third quarter.<\/p>\n

China remained well ahead of other countries, with more than three times the observed attack traffic when compared to\u00a0the United States – which is in second place.<\/p>\n

\"Attack<\/a>

Attack traffic by country<\/p><\/div>\n

Top attack ports<\/h3>\n

In Q4 2014 the percentage of observed attack traffic targeting Port 23 (Telnet) increased significantly.<\/p>\n

This increase may indicate a growth in attacks relying on brute-force login attempts or those that exploit default usernames and passwords to gain access to vulnerable systems.<\/p>\n

These attacks can be perpetrated by bots that scan for systems with Port 23 open then try to login when finding such a port.<\/p>\n

All other ports in the top 10 increased their percentages as well, with significant increases for Ports 445 (Microsoft-DS), 8080 (http Alternate), 3389 (Microsoft Terminal Services), and 22 (ssh).<\/p>\n

In total, attack traffic to the top 10 ports made up 79% of all observed attack traffic – a substantial increase from 38% in the previous quarter.<\/p>\n

\"Attack<\/a>

Attack traffic by port<\/p><\/div>\n

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Akamai\u2019s latest State of the Internet report reveals how online hackers are trying to attack networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":72576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[3340,23420,1565,35,20855,30044,30046,30042],"class_list":["post-125080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-akamai","tag-attack-traffic","tag-hacker","tag-headline","tag-http","tag-ssh","tag-state-of-the-internet-report","tag-telnet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125096,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125080\/revisions\/125096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}