{"id":188774,"date":"2016-11-23T17:45:16","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T15:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=188774"},"modified":"2016-11-23T17:46:13","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T15:46:13","slug":"top-10-ddos-attack-source-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/188774-top-10-ddos-attack-source-countries.html","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 DDoS attack source countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Akamai has released its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.akamai.com\/us\/en\/our-thinking\/state-of-the-internet-report\/global-state-of-the-internet-security-ddos-attack-reports.jsp\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Q3 2016 State of the Internet Security Report<\/strong><\/a>, which revealed that China is the top source country for DDoS attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The report, using data gathered from the Akamai Intelligent Platform, provides analysis of the current cloud security and threat landscape.<\/p>\n<p>The third quarter of 2016 marks a full year with China as the top source country for DDoS attacks, with just under 30% of attack traffic this past quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The proportion of traffic from China was down by 56%, which had a significant effect on the overall attack count and led to an\u00a08% drop in attacks seen this quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The United States, United Kingdom, France, and Brazil made up the remaining top five source countries.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s important to note that UDP attacks, including fragmentation, were not included in this metric.<\/p>\n<p>This is in part due to the ease with which these attacks can be spoofed and could create distortion of the data.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/DDoS-Source-Countries.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-188776 size-new-size\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/DDoS-Source-Countries-640x888.jpg\" alt=\"ddos source countries\" width=\"640\" height=\"888\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/DDoS-Source-Countries-640x888.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/DDoS-Source-Countries-310x430.jpg 310w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/DDoS-Source-Countries.jpg 666w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/184014-how-a-ddos-attack-took-out-a-huge-part-of-the-internet.html\">How a DDoS attack took out a huge part of the Internet<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Akamai\u2019s Q3 2016 State of the Internet Security Report reveals the top countries from which DDoS attack traffic originates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":103731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[36,3340,2242],"class_list":["post-188774","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\/188774"}],"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=188774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188792,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188774\/revisions\/188792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}