DDoS threat report for 2024 Q3
Oct 23, 2024Omer Yoachimik, Jorge Pacheco
Summary
This post details the significant increase in DDoS attacks observed in Q3 2024, with nearly 6 million attacks mitigated. It highlights the mitigation of over 200 hyper-volumetric attacks exceeding 1 Tbps, including a record-breaking 4.2 Tbps attack. The analysis covers attack types (network vs. application layer), duration, vectors (SYN flood, DNS flood, SSDP amplification), user agents used in HTTP attacks (Chrome, Go-http-client, fasthttp), and HTTP attack attributes (DELETE method, non-standard HTTP/1.2, HTTPS). It also identifies top attacked locations (China, UAE) and industries (Banking & Financial Services, IT & Services).
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