Shorter but higher volume denial of service DDoS attacks hit businesses in many industries in Q2 2012

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At a glance

Compared to Q2 2011

• 50 percent increase in total number of DDoS attacks
• 11 percent increase in infrastructure (Layer 3 & 4) attacks
• Shorter attack duration: 17 hours vs. 26 hours
• 63 percent higher packet-per-second (pps) volume
• 55 percent decline in average attack bandwidth

Compared to Q1 2012

• 10 percent increase in total number of attacks
• 8 percent rise in Layer 3 and 4 infrastructure attacks
• Average attack duration declines to 17 hours from 28.5
• China retains position as main source country for DDoS attacks

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• Q1 2012 – Financial services firms get hammered
  Prolexic logged a significant increase in attack traffic directed at financial services clients.
• Q4 2011 – Attacks become more concentrated and damaging
  Prolexic recorded a dramatic rise in packet-per-second volume this quarter and significant attack activity against e-Commerce businesses.
• Q3 2011 – DDoS attackers change strategies
  Prolexic saw changing tactics where attackers were starting to target the DDoS mitigation infrastructure directly, specifically routers, most of which do not have the capacity to process high packets-per-second attacks.

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