Stats and highlights from Prolexic's Q3 2013 Global DDoS Attack Report

1. Global DDoS Attack Report
Q3 2013
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2. Prolexic Q3 2013 Global DDoS Attack Report:
Highlights
• DDoS perpetrators changed tactics
– Amplified attack sizes
– Hid their identities
– Used smaller botnets
• Significant increase in reflection attacks
– Up 70% compared to previous quarter
– Up 265% compared to Q3 2012
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3. Prolexic Q3 2013 Global DDoS Attack Report:
Highlights, continued
• Average attack duration decline considerably
– To 21.33 hours
– Less use of BroDoS
– Greater use of reflection attacks
• Record volume of DDoS attacks
– Small increase of 1.58 percent
– Q3 is normally a quiet month
– Increase shows heightened level of global DDoS activity
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4. Types of DDoS attacks used in Q3 2013
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Application layer attacks: 76.52% of attacks
Infrastructure layer attacks: 23.48% of attacks
UDP attacks increased
SYN attacks decreased
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5. Types of DDoS attacks used in Q3, continued
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6. DDoS attack frequency in Q3 2013
• Most active month: July
• Most active week: July 21
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7. Top source countries for DDoS attacks:
Q3 2013
• Main source of attacks: China
– By far the most attacks
– 62 percent of all attack traffic
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United States: 9 percent
Republic of Korea (South Korea): 7 percent
Brazil: 4.5 percent
Russian Federation: 4.5 percent
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8. Top 10 source countries for DDoS attacks:
Q3 2013, continued
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9. Special report: DrDoS reflection services
• Also included in the Q3 2013 Global DDoS Attack
report is a special report:
– Development and resale of custom attack tools
available as DDoS-as-a-Service
– The underground marketplace for DrDoS attack
methods, tools and services
– Easy steps you can take to protect your servers from
involvement in CHARGEN reflection attacks
• Download the Q3 2013 Global Attack Report to get this special
report.
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10. Prolexic Q3 2013 Global Attack Report
• Download the Prolexic 2013 Q3 Global Attack Report for:
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Average and trends in attack duration and bandwidth
Total number and trends of attacks by type
In-depth case studies
Year-over-year and quarter-over-quarter comparisons
A look forward at emerging DDoS trends
• About Prolexic
– Prolexic Technologies is the world’s largest and most trusted
distributor of DDoS protection and mitigation services.
– Prolexic Security and Engineering Response Team (PLXsert)
monitors the global malicious cyber threats and actively analyzes
DDoS attacks using proprietary techniques and equipment.
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