During Q3, Prolexic mitigated seven DDoS attacks of more than 20 Gbps
October 20, 2012
PRESS RELEASE
HOLLYWOOD, FL – (October 17, 2012) – Prolexic Technologies, the global leader in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services, today announced that the size of DDoS attacks increased significantly against its global client base in Q3 2012. This spike is one of a number of key findings contained in the company's Quarterly Global DDoS Attack Report, which was published today.
During Q3, Prolexic mitigated seven DDoS attacks of more than 20 Gigabits per second (Gbps) for different clients across multiple industries. A number of these denial of service attacks leveraged the PHP-based bot toolkit called itsoknoproblembro that has been used in some recent high-profile DDoS attacks.
"Last year, a DDoS attack in excess of 20 Gigabits per second was notable, but today it seems commonplace," said Stuart Scholly, president of Prolexic. "To put this in perspective, very few enterprises in the world have a network infrastructure with the capacity to withstand bandwidth floods of this size."
Other highlights from Prolexic's Q3 2012 Global DDoS Attack Report
Compared to Q2 2012
· 14% decline in total number of attacks
· 11% increase in average attack bandwidth
· Slight increase in average attack duration to 19 hours from 17 hours
· Packet per second volume increase of 33
· China joined by the United States as the top source countries for DDoS attacks
Compared to Q3 2011
· 88% increase in total number of DDoS attacks
· Significant decrease in average attack duration: 19 hours vs. 33 hours