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A10 Networks reveals the DDoS weapons and attack vendors which businesses face
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
A 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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