Arbor Networks Inc., the security division of NETSCOUT, has released global distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack data for the first six months of
2016, which shows a continuing escalation in both the size and frequency of attacks.
Arbor’s data is gathered through the Active Threat Level Analysis System (ATLAS™), a collaborative partnership with more than 330 service provider
customers who share anonymous traffic data with Arbor in order to deliver a comprehensive, aggregated view of global traffic and threats. ATLAS provides
the data for the Digital Attack Map, a visualisation of global attack traffic created in collaboration with Google Ideas ATLAS data has also been utilised
recently in Cisco’s Visual Networking Index Report and
the Verizon Data Breach Incident Report.
DDoS remains a commonly used attack type due to the ready availability of free tools and inexpensive online services that allow anyone with a grievance and
an internet connection to launch an attack. This has led to an increase in the frequency, size and complexity of attacks in recent years.
ATLAS has recorded:
An average of 124,000 events per week over the last 18 months
A 73% increase in peak attack size over 2015, to 579Gbps
274 attacks over 100Gbps monitored in 1H 2016, versus 223 in all of 2015
46 attacks over 200Gbps monitored in 1H 2016, versus 16 in all of 2015
USA, France and Great Britain are the top targets for attacks over 10Gbps
As Arbor’s Security Engineering & Response Team (ASERT) recently documented, large DDoS attacks do not require the use of
reflection amplification techniques. LizardStresser, an IoT botnet was used to launch attacks as large as 400Gbps targeting gaming sites worldwide,
Brazilian financial institutions, internet service providers (ISPs) and government institutions. According to ASERT, the attack packets do not appear to be
from spoofed source addresses – and no UDP-based amplification protocols such as NTP or SNMP were used.
Read the findings from Arbor’s report and the official press release here.
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