{"id":149149,"date":"2015-12-09T15:57:28","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T13:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=149149"},"modified":"2015-12-09T15:59:08","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T13:59:08","slug":"massive-increase-in-ddos-attacks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/149149-massive-increase-in-ddos-attacks-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Massive increase in DDoS attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Akamai has released its Q3 2015 State of the Internet Security Report, which shows that the number of DDoS attacks increased by 180% this year.<\/p>\n<p>The third quarter of 2015 set a record for the number of DDoS attacks recorded on Akamai\u2019s routed network &#8211; a total of 1,510.<\/p>\n<p>Although the number of DDoS attacks increased, the percentage of attacks that targeted the application layer (Layer 7) dropped 42% quarter-on-quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Mega DDoS attacks &#8211; those measuring 100Gbps or more &#8211; dropped from 12 last quarter to 8 this quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to Q3 2014, 100+ Gbps-sized attacks have decreased 53%.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the year-on-year statistics highlighted in the Q3 2015 State of the Internet Security Report:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>179.66% increase in total DDoS attacks<\/li>\n<li>25.74% increase in application layer (Layer 7) DDoS attacks<\/li>\n<li>198.1% increase in infrastructure layer (Layer 3 and 4) DDoS attacks<\/li>\n<li>15.65% decrease in average attack duration: 18.86 vs. 22.36 hours<\/li>\n<li>65.58% decrease in average peak attack bandwidth<\/li>\n<li>88.72% decrease in average peak attack volume<\/li>\n<li>462.44% increase in reflection attacks<\/li>\n<li>52.94% decrease in attacks &gt; 100 Gbps: 8 vs. 17<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">DDoS and web applications attacks<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-149159\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/DDoS-attacks.jpg\" alt=\"DDoS attacks\" width=\"630\" height=\"2432\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on security<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/140200-akamai-xor-ddos-warning.html\"><strong>Akamai XOR DDoS warning<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/135794-a-new-ddos-reflection-attack-portmapper.html\">A new DDoS Reflection Attack: Portmapper<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/134976-large-ddos-attacks-often-use-syn-and-udp-vectors.html\">Large DDoS attacks often use SYN and UDP vectors<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q3 of 2015 set a record for the number of distributed denial of service attacks recorded on Akamai\u2019s routed network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":136506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[36,3340,2242],"class_list":["post-149149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-active","tag-akamai","tag-ddos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149149"}],"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=149149"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149175,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149149\/revisions\/149175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}