South Africa
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
23
Attack Vectors Used
1. CLDAP Amplification
2. DNS
3. DNS Amplification
4. ICMP
5. L2TP Amplification
6. MS SQL RS Amplification
7. NTP Amplification
8. NetBIOS Amplification
9. RIPv1 Amplification
10. SLP Amplification
11. SNMP Amplification
12. SSDP Amplification
13. TCP ACK
14. TCP RST
15. TCP SYN
16. TCP SYN/ACK Amplification
17. UDP
18. chargen Amplification
19. mDNS Amplification
20. memcached Amplification
21. rpcbind Amplification
Top Attack Vectors
Ds
DNS
Number of Attacks
76,235
Dn
DNS Amplification
Number of Attacks
55,719
Ta
TCP ACK
Number of Attacks
47,556
Tr
TCP RST
Number of Attacks
26,450
Tk
TCP SYN/ACK Amplification
Number of Attacks
25,540
Top Eight 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)
|
126,551 | 240.79 Gbps | 22.94 Mpps | 17 Minutes |
| 2 |
Other Computer Related Services
|
18,243 | 101.42 Gbps | 9.67 Mpps | 57 Minutes |
| 3 |
Computing Infrastructure Providers Data Processing Web Hosting and Related Services
|
10,365 | 64.76 Gbps | 12.9 Mpps | 259 Minutes |
| 4 |
Insurance Agencies and Brokerages
|
6,680 | 21.45 Gbps | 2.37 Mpps | 33 Minutes |
| 5 |
Commercial Banking
|
4,653 | 4.03 Gbps | 0.34 Mpps | 72 Minutes |
| 6 |
Computer Systems Design Services
|
2,815 | 2.22 Gbps | 0.22 Mpps | 11 Minutes |
| 7 |
Portfolio Management and Investment Advice
|
1,571 | 2.03 Gbps | 0.3 Mpps | 8 Minutes |
| 8 |
Wired Telecommunications Carriers
|
1,500 | 312.46 Gbps | 27.46 Mpps | 93 Minutes |