DDoS Threat Report 2016 Q4

Emerging vulnerabilities are constantly being uncovered in both IoT devices already deployed and new ones coming to market, thus surely presaging a growing number of future botnet infections. Blended attacks consisting of DDoS and hacking activities were predominantly aimed at financial and government sectors.

• 200+ Gbps-sized attacks became commonplace late in Q4.
• The number of attacks in December increased by 152+%, while attacks in November climbed more than 50% over October.
• In the financial sector, WAF alerts surged 2.86X from November to December.
• 17,872,563 DNS attacks leveraging cpsc.gov has been recorded.
• Mirai started the outbreak of IoT botnets; 426,770 IoT bots were observed since botnet monitoring commenced in October.