{"id":130644,"date":"2015-07-03T10:58:35","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T08:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=130644"},"modified":"2015-07-03T10:59:34","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T08:59:34","slug":"massive-increase-in-ddos-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/130644-massive-increase-in-ddos-attacks.html","title":{"rendered":"Massive increase in DDoS attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Akamai has released its Q1 2015 State of the Internet Security Report, which shows a massive increase in the number of DDoS attacks.<\/p>\n

Compared to Q4 2014, 35% more DDoS attacks took place in early 2015, while compared to Q1 2014 there was a 117% increase in attacks.<\/p>\n

Average attack bandwidth and volume decreased in Q1 2015, continuing a trend in which malicious actors favour smaller but longer-lasting attacks. Attack duration increased 43% over Q1 2014.<\/p>\n

A notable exception to this trend were eight 100+Gbps attacks, including an attack that peaked at 170Gbps.<\/p>\n

These DDoS attacks primarily targeted the gaming industry, which continues to be the most targeted industry.<\/p>\n

SSDP attacks represented the top overall infrastructure-based attack. Because many SSDP reflection attacks exploit unsecured, in-home devices, many escape detection and mitigation.<\/p>\n

The top three DDoS attacks vectors in Q1 2015 were: SSDP at 21% of all attacks, SYN floods at 16%, and UDP floods at 13%.<\/p>\n

Infrastructure-layer attacks were by far the most common type of attack, outnumbering application-layer attacks by a ratio of 9:1.<\/p>\n

Application-layer DDoS attacks continue to be a risk, though, as malicious actors favour attack scripts that leverage open proxies on the Internet.<\/p>\n

In Q1 2015, HTTP get attacks were the most common application-layer DDoS attack – 7% of all DDoS attacks.<\/p>\n

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DDoS attack types<\/p><\/div>\n

DDoS country participation<\/h3>\n

Q1 2015 saw a shift in source country participation in DDoS attacks. China was responsible for 23% of attacks, Germany 17%, and the US 12%.<\/p>\n

This quarter\u2019s top attack source country, China, had a 66% increase in attack source IPs compared to the US, though some of the increase in attack sources could be attributed to the increase in redirected traffic from Asia.<\/p>\n

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DDoS attack source countries<\/p><\/div>\n

Most attacked industries<\/h3>\n

The gaming industry faced the most DDoS attacks, followed by Software and Technology, and Internet and Telecoms.<\/p>\n

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Most targeted industries<\/p><\/div>\n

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Akamai\u2019s Q1 2015 State of the Internet Security Report reveals a massive increase in DDoS attacks over the last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":85121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[3340,2242,35],"class_list":["post-130644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-akamai","tag-ddos","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130644"}],"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=130644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130746,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130644\/revisions\/130746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}