Business Wire India
  • Q2 report spotlights a 129 percent YoY increase in total DDoS attacks and a record 276 percent increase in NTP reflection attacks
  • Web application attacks increased by 14 percent; SQL Injection and Local File Inclusion (LFI) continue growth as most common attack vectors
Second Quarter, 2016 State of the Internet / Security ReportState of the Internet / Security ReportState of the Internet / Security ReportSecond Quarter, 2016 State of the Internet / Security ReportDDoS Attacks
  • Total DDoS attacks increased 129 percent in Q2 2016 from Q2 2015. During the second quarter, Akamai mitigated a total of 4,919 DDoS attacks.
  • Akamai observed its largest DDoS to date at 363 Gbps on June 20 th against a European media customer.  At the same time, the median attack size fell by 36% to 3.85 Gbps.
  • Twelve attacks observed during Q2 exceeded 100 Gbps and two that reached 300 Gbps targeted the media and entertainment industry.
Web Application Attacks
  • Q2 2016 showed a 14 percent increase in total web application attacks from Q1 2016.
  • Brazil experienced a 197 percent increase in attacks sourced from the region – the top country of origin for all web application attacks.
  • The United States ranked second among countries for total web application attacks, saw a 13 percent decrease in attacks compared to Q1 2016.
  • SQL Injection (44 percent) and Local File Inclusion (45 percent) were the two most common attack vectors in Q2.
Bot Traffic Analysis
  • During one 24-hour period in Q2, bots accounted for 43 percent of all web traffic across the Akamai Intelligent Platform.
  • Detected automation tools and scraping campaigns represented 63 percent of all bot traffic, a 10 percent increase from Q1 2016. These bots scrape specific websites or industry segments and do not identify their intentions and origin.
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