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A10 Networks tracked nearly six million DDoS
weapons in Q4 2019. Here’s what the vendor
discovered about the threats targeting
companies today.
10 Networks, a provider of intelligent and
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automated cybersecurity solutions, has announced
the release of its research carried out into DDoS
weapons and attack vendors. The research revealed
that SNMP and SSDP remain the top sources for DDoS attacks,
but the company also tracked nearly 800,000 WS-Discovery
sources for exposed reflection amplification.
The report revealed 1,390,505 SNMP weapons and 1,196,798
SSDP weapons were tracked, while 781,147 WS-Discovery
weapons, 661,810 TFTP weapons and 389,956 DNS Resolver
weapons were tracked.
DDoS-for-hire services and other attackers continually scan for
fresh TCP and UDP services to exploit, while the top countries
hosting DDoS weapons align closely with the top ASNs where
they connect. The top countries were China with 739,223 DDoS
weapons, the USA with 448,169, the Republic of Korea with
440,185, India with 268,864, Russia with 253,609 and Taiwan
with 199,656 DDoS weapons.
The research also revealed that China hosts nearly a quarter of
observed DDoS botnet agents (24%), with Brazil next with 9%,
Iran with 6%, Taiwan with 4% and Thailand with 4%.
Attacking drones are most often seen in Brazil followed by
Thailand, Hong Kong, India and Russia.
A10 Networks says that sophisticated DDoS threat
intelligence, real-time threat detection and automated
signature extraction can help protect organisations against
even the largest DDoS attacks. ◊
ATTACKING DRONES ARE
MOST OFTEN SEEN IN BRAZIL
FOLLOWED BY THAILAND, HONG
KONG, INDIA AND RUSSIA.
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