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Statistics based on attack campaigns mitigated by Akamai.

[state of the internet]

DDoS AND WEB APPLICATION ATTACKS

S T A T S & T R E N D SA P R I L – J U N E 2 0 1 6

Q2 2016 [state of the internet] / secur i ty

DDoS ATTACKS

Web App Attack Trends

DDoS TARGETS

QUICK TAKEAWAYS

DDoS attacks on the rise: 129% increase since Q2 2015

New record DDoS attack: 363 Gbps in Q2 2016

NTP re�ection attacks on the rise: 44% increase since Q1 2016

Average attack bandwidth dropped 36% since Q1 2016

12 MEGA ATTACKS

100Gbps

The Akamai Intelligent Platform™ consists of more than 210,000 servers in more than 120 countries

around the globe and regularly transmits between 15 – 30% of all Internet traf�c. The State of the

Internet / Security Report draws its data from multiple solutions on the platform in order to provide

information about current attacks and traf�c patterns around the globe.

MOST TARGETED INDUSTRIES

TOP 10 DDoSVECTORS

(BY PERCENTAGE)

UDP Fragment(Byproduct of other attack vectors)

CHARGEN

SSDP

UDP Floods

SYN

NTP

DNS

TCP Anomaly (3%)Other (3%)

ACK (3%)

23%

16%

16%

10%

9%

9%

6%

LARGESTBANDWIDTHDDoS ATTACK363 Gbps

HIGHEST VOLUMEDDoS ATTACK363 MppsMpps

TARGETED INDUSTRIESAVERAGE NUMBER OFDDoS ATTACKSPER TARGET: 27

23.0

6.8

GAMING57%

26%

5%4%4%

SOFTWARE &TECHNOLOGY

MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

FINANCIAL SERVICES

INTERNET & TELECOM

EDUCATION (1%) OTHER (3%)

WEBATTACKS

OVER HTTPSQLi46%

LFI45%

RFI (2%)PHPi (2%)Other (1%)

(BY PERCENTAGE)

LFI45%

SQLi38%

XSS12%

RFI (2%)PHPi (1%)Other (1%)

WEBATTACKS

OVER HTTPS(BY PERCENTAGE)

ATTACKS TARGETED US SITES64% OF WEB APPLICATION

23.0

6.8 RETAIL40%

21%

11%

5%

5%

5%4%

5%

MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

PUBLIC SECTOR

HIGH TECHNOLOGY

FINANCIAL SERVICES

BUSINESS SERVICES

SaaS (3%)

OTHER

HOTEL & TRAVEL

XX

X

XX

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

XX X

X

X

XXX

X

X

X

X

XX

X

MEGAGREATER THAN

30 MPPS250%INCREASESINCEQ1 2016

21ATTACKSGREATER THAN

HTTP vs. HTTPS

23%

77%

D O W N L O A D

T H E F U L L R E P O R T

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