{"id":188780,"date":"2016-11-25T14:57:51","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T12:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=188780"},"modified":"2016-11-25T14:59:07","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T12:59:07","slug":"ddos-and-web-application-attacks-stats-and-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/188780-ddos-and-web-application-attacks-stats-and-trends.html","title":{"rendered":"DDoS and web application attacks &#8211; stats and trends"},"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 a significant increase in the size of DDoS attacks through the Mirai botnet.<\/p>\n<p>The report, using data gathered from the Akamai Intelligent Platform, provides an analysis of the current cloud security and threat landscape.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the two largest DDoS attacks over Q3 both leveraged the Mirai botnet and were the biggest ever observed by Akamai \u2013 623Gbps and 555Gbps.<\/p>\n<p>These attacks were aimed at the site of cybersecurity writer and blogger Brian Krebs, hosted at <a href=\"http:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>www.krebsonsecurity.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese attacks were remarkable not only for their size, but also for the source and nature of the traffic they used,\u201d said Akamai.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince June, we had been researching a strain of malware we called Kaiten, which targets home routers and Internet of Things devices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe malware has now been released to the world at large, under the name Mirai, and targets more than 60 default username and password combinations.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">An overview of DDoS and web application attacks<\/h3>\n<p>The infographic below provides an overview of the DDoS and web application attacks in Q3 2016.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Akamai.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-188784 size-new-size\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Akamai-640x2797.jpg\" alt=\"akamai\" width=\"640\" height=\"2797\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Akamai-640x2797.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Akamai.jpg 706w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <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 latest State of the Internet Security Report reveals details about the current cloud security and threat landscape, including DDoS and web attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":183640,"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_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[3340,2242,35],"class_list":["post-188780","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\/188780"}],"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=188780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188794,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188780\/revisions\/188794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}