Prolexic DDoS Attack Report: Q4 2013 DDoS Attack Trends and Statistics

Feb 17, 2014, 04:10 AM

http://www.prolexic.com/knowledge-center-ddos-attack-report-2013-q4/twitter.html?cvosrc=3rd%20Party.National%20Positions.AR-13-Q4 | Q4 2013 set new records for the frequency and size of DDoS attacks, with one notable attack peaking at 179 Gbps. This would be a crippling DDoS attack for most organizations. Q4 also saw significant growth in the misuse of the CHARGEN and NTP protocols in distributed reflection DDoS attacks, while mobile devices started to play a significant role in an attack campaigns. Get more DDoS attack stats and trends in this short podcast (2:51).