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Title: Prolexic Quarterly DDoS Attack Report Q1 2013


1
Overview of Prolexic Quarterly DDoS Attack Report
Q1 2013
  • www.prolexic.com

2
Prolexic Quarterly DDoS Attack Report Q1 2013
  • What happened in Q1 2013?
  • The most formidable distributed denial of service
    (DDoS) attacks to date
  • More than 10 percent of attacks exceeded 60
    Gigabits per second (Gbps)
  • The headline-making Spamhaus.org attack

www.prolexic.com
3
Average Bandwidth of DDoS Attacks in Q1 2013
  • Volumetric bandwidth averaged an
    attention-grabbing 48.25 Gbps

4
Emerging DDoS Attack Trends Q1 2013
  • Important trends?
  • Targeting Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and
    Carrier router infrastructures
  • High average packets-per-second (PPS)
  • Greater average than most DDoS mitigation
    equipment capacity.
  • Even routers carrying traffic to the mitigation
    equipment would be strained at this level
  • See full report for details on PPS trends

5
Analysis of Attack Types Q1 2013
  • Attackers focused on infrastructure attacks
  • Favored application attacks were
  • SYN
  • GET
  • UDP
  • ICMP
  • Download the full report for percentages and
    graphs by attack type, including attack volume
    and trends

6
DDoS Attack Frequency in Q1 2013 vs 2012
  • Prolexic mitigated more DDoS attacks than ever in
    Q1 2013
  • The month of March accounted for nearly half of
    all Q1 attacks (44 percent)

7
Top Ten Source Countries DDoS Attacks in Q1 2013
8
DDoS Attack Case Study An Enterprise (Q1 2013)
  • Case 1 Enterprise Organization
  • Attack traffic peaked at a massive 130 Gbps
  • Multiple botnets with thousands of compromised
    servers
  • Primarily SYN, UDP and DNS floods
  • Modifications to attack scripts executed on the
    fly, requiring expertise and responsiveness to
    block them
  • Successfully mitigated by Prolexic.
  • Get full report for specific attack vectors and
    traffic distribution and other details

9
DDoS Attack Case Study DNS Reflection (Q1 2013)
  • Case 1 DNS Reflection attack against Prolexic
  • New extensions such as SNSSEC are being used as
    attack vectors
  • Attack directed at ns1.prolexic.com on Jan 23,
    2013
  • Malicious actor used DNS amplification techniques
  • 64 byte request generated a response exceeding
    3,000 bytes and averaged 1,200 bytes
  • 18x amplification
  • Successfully mitigated by Prolexic
  • View full report for specific attack metrics,
    traffic distribution, heat map of participating
    countries, and more

10
Prolexic Q1 2013 Global Attack Report
  • Download the Q1 2013 Global Attack Report for
  • Average and trends in attack duration and
    bandwidth
  • Total number and trends of attacks by type
  • In-depth case studies
  • Year-over-year and quarter-over-quarter
    comparisons
  • A look forward at emerging DDoS trends
  • About Prolexic
  • Prolexic Technologies is the worlds largest and
    most trusted distributor of DDoS protection and
    mitigation services.
  • Prolexic Security and Engineering Response Team
    (PLXsert) monitors the global malicious cyber
    threats and actively analyzes DDoS attacks using
    proprietary techniques and equipment.
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