View this short presentation to learn about DDoS trends including significant changes in DDoS attack methods in the third quarter 2013, including the most frequent attack types and sources.

1. Global DDoS Attack Report
Q3 2013
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2. Prolexic Q3 2013 Global DDoS Attack Report:
Highlights
• DDoS perpetrators changed tactics
– Amplified attack sizes
– Hid their identities
– Used smaller botnets
• Significant increase in reflection attacks
– Up 70% compared to previous quarter
– Up 265% compared to Q3 2012
• Download the Q3 2013 Global Attack Report for data and analysis.
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3. Prolexic Q3 2013 Global DDoS Attack Report:
Highlights, continued
• Average attack duration decline considerably
– To 21.33 hours
– Less use of BroDoS
– Greater use of reflection attacks
• Record volume of DDoS attacks
– Small increase of 1.58 percent
– Q3 is normally a quiet month
– Increase shows heightened level of global DDoS activity
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4. Types of DDoS attacks used in Q3 2013
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Application layer attacks: 76.52% of attacks
Infrastructure layer attacks: 23.48% of attacks
UDP attacks increased
SYN attacks decreased
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5. Types of DDoS attacks used in Q3, continued
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6. DDoS attack frequency in Q3 2013
• Most active month: July
• Most active week: July 21
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7. Top source countries for DDoS attacks:
Q3 2013
• Main source of attacks: China
– By far the most attacks
– 62 percent of all attack traffic
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United States: 9 percent
Republic of Korea (South Korea): 7 percent
Brazil: 4.5 percent
Russian Federation: 4.5 percent
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8. Top 10 source countries for DDoS attacks:
Q3 2013, continued
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9. Special report: DrDoS reflection services
• Also included in the Q3 2013 Global DDoS Attack
report is a special report:
– Development and resale of custom attack tools
available as DDoS-as-a-Service
– The underground marketplace for DrDoS attack
methods, tools and services
– Easy steps you can take to protect your servers from
involvement in CHARGEN reflection attacks
• Download the Q3 2013 Global Attack Report to get this special
report.
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10. Prolexic Q3 2013 Global Attack Report
• Download the Prolexic 2013 Q3 Global Attack Report for:
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Average and trends in attack duration and bandwidth
Total number and trends of attacks by type
In-depth case studies
Year-over-year and quarter-over-quarter comparisons
A look forward at emerging DDoS trends
• About Prolexic
– Prolexic Technologies is the world’s largest and most trusted
distributor of DDoS protection and mitigation services.
– Prolexic Security and Engineering Response Team (PLXsert)
monitors the global malicious cyber threats and actively analyzes
DDoS attacks using proprietary techniques and equipment.
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