During Q4 2013, Akamai observed attack traffic originating from 188 countries. China accounted for 43% of attacks, up from 35% last quarter. The US also saw growth. Port 445 (Microsoft-DS) remained the most targeted port at 30% of attacks. Akamai customers reported 346 DDoS attacks in Q4, up 23% from last quarter. Enterprise and commerce customers accounted for nearly 70% of attacks, with nearly half reported by customers in the Americas. In addition, attacks using the Skipfish and Vega vulnerability scanners to target RFI vulnerabilities rose.
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Mobile traffic insights and connected devices from Ericsson
1. Includes insight on mobile traffic and connected devices from Ericsson
AKAMAI’S STATE OF THE
INTERNETQ4 2013 REPORT | VOLUME 6 NUMBER 4
2. Prolexic Quarterly Global
DDoS Attack Report
To view the latest Global Attack Report,
please visit prolexic.com/attackreports
www.prolexic.com
3. Letter From the Editor
This issue of the State of the Internet Report closes out its sixth year of publication, encompassing hundreds of
thousands of words written and the development of several hundred tables, graphs, and maps. All of this content,
and the valuable insight that it represents, have established the report as a key and definitive resource on Internet
connection speeds, broadband adoption, mobile usage, Internet outages, and attack traffic.
Over this last year, we have added additional information on IPv6 adoption, sourced from an ever-growing customer
base that leverages Akamai’s solutions to dual-stack their Web sites and applications. We also started to include
insight into “situational performance,” a term used to describe the challenges of optimizing both the desktop and
mobile Web experience. The situational performance data presented within the report is derived from the Real User
Monitoring component of Akamai’s Aqua Ion solution, which passively gathers performance measurements from
actual users of a Web site/application. The 2013 edition of the State of the Internet Report has also seen continued
coverage of DDoS attacks reported by Akamai customers, as well as an ongoing exploration of significant targeted
attack activity that took place in the relevant quarters.
Within the fourth quarter issue of the State of the Internet Report over the last several years, we have included
a “Historical Lookback” section, including graphs highlighting long-term (full year or longer) trends across various
metrics covered within the report, along with a discussion of those trends. This year, you’ll find this historical
insight on the Akamai blog as a series of posts that include interactive graphs. The blog posts can be found at
https://blogs.akamai.com/state-of-the-internet/, and will cover topics including connection speeds, broadband
adoption, IPv4 and IPv6, and attack traffic.
Finally, as you may be aware, Akamai completed the acquisition of Prolexic, a leader in DDoS mitigation services,
in February 2014. Prolexic also published a quarterly report series, focused on DDoS attacks, as well as related
trends and statistics. The most recent Prolexic Quarterly Global DDoS Attack Report, covering the first quarter of 2014,
was recently published and is available for download at http://www.prolexic.com/attack-reports. We are very excited to
announce that over the coming quarters, we will be working together to consolidate the Prolexic Quarterly Global
DDoS Attack Report and Akamai’s State of the Internet Report, with the goal of publishing a combined report
that delivers an unparalleled level of insight into the Internet threat landscape. Watch this space, and follow
@akamai_soti on Twitter for more information.
As always, if you have questions, comments, or suggestions regarding the State of the Internet Report, connect with
us via e-mail at stateoftheinternet@akamai.com or on Twitter at @akamai_soti.
– David Belson