According to Arbor Networks, during the first half of 2014, more than 100 DDoS attacks over 100GB / sec.
The data were collected from the ATLAS Threat Monitoring System of Arbor Networks, a product of collaboration between 300 customers – service providers, sharing anonymously data movement with Arbor.
The ATLAS collects statistics corresponding to 90TB / sec Internet traffic and provides data for Digital Attack Map, a map with all the global traffic attacks and was created in collaboration with the Google Ideas.
Key findings of ATLAS in the first half of 2014:
- During the first half of 2014, most volumetric DDoS attacks were observed, with more than 100 attack reports above 100GB / sec so far
- In the middle of 2014, the attacks were more than 20GB / sec, in relation to the entire 2013
- The largest attack recorded in the second quarter was 154,69GB/sec, down 101% compared to the first quarter of 2014. More specifically, this was a reflection attack attack) in NTP protocol noted in Spain
- Reflection attacks in NTP protocols are still significant, but their size and breadth has fallen relative to the first quarter of 2014. Average NTP traffic volume is declining globally, but is not yet returning to November levels of 2013 (before NTP attacks begin to multiply)
- During the second quarter of 2014, fewer major attacks were observed - with an average of their size being reduced by 47% compared to the first quarter of 2014
Source: e-pcmag.gr