Europe, Middle East, and Africa
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Ireland

The DDoS threat landscape is constantly evolving, and to stay ahead of adversaries, ongoing monitoring and analysis are essential to detect how they are modifying their behavior and targets. NETSCOUT monitors the global threat landscape and drills into regional and country-level statistics to ensure that adversaries inform us of near-real-time trends. The country-level analytics featured on this page are automatically generated using our global threat analysis and collection platform, ATLAS, and provide a range of benchmarks for the specified time period, such as the top vectors used in DDoS attacks, top targeted industries, largest attack by bandwidth and throughput, most vectors used in an attack, and total attack frequency.

Max Multivector Attack

Max number of vectors seen in a single attack

21

Attack Vectors Used

1. CLDAP Amplification
2. COAP Amplification
3. DNS
4. DNS Amplification
5. ICMP
6. MS SQL RS Amplification
7. NTP Amplification
8. RIPv1 Amplification
9. SNMP Amplification
10. STUN Amplification
11. TCP ACK
12. TCP RST
13. TCP SYN
14. TCP SYN/ACK Amplification
15. UDP
16. mDNS Amplification
17. memcached Amplification
18. rpcbind Amplification

Top Attack Vectors

Ta

TCP ACK

Number of Attacks

15,601

Tk

TCP SYN/ACK Amplification

Number of Attacks

9,010

Tr

TCP RST

Number of Attacks

8,277

Lt

L2TP Amplification

Number of Attacks

6,099

Im

ICMP

Number of Attacks

4,046

Top Seven Industries Under Attack

The following table lists the top vertical industries under attack from January 2025 to June 2025 by number of attacks.

Rank Vertical Frequency Max Attack Max Impact Average Duration
1
Wireless Telecommunications Carriers (except Satellite)
28,815 178.18 Gbps 22.65 Mpps 6 Minutes
2
Computing Infrastructure Providers Data Processing Web Hosting and Related Services
5,115 28.89 Gbps 4.66 Mpps 175 Minutes
3
Wired Telecommunications Carriers
2,449 76.38 Gbps 8.18 Mpps 46 Minutes
4
All Other Telecommunications
2,073 34.63 Gbps 20.63 Mpps 40 Minutes
5
Hobby Toy and Game Retailers
72 1.99 Gbps 1.65 Mpps 16 Minutes
6
Colleges Universities and Professional Schools
27 12.32 Gbps 1.05 Mpps 45 Minutes
7
Professional and Management Development Training
13 6.3 Gbps 0.54 Mpps 13 Minutes