Q3 2015 State of the Internet – Security Report
DDoS and Web Application Attack Trends
Each quarter, we analyze attack traffic across Akamai’s PLXrouted and Edge networks to understand how the cloud security threatscape is changing. In this report, you will learn detailed statistics about cloud security and DDoS and web application attack trends observed across the Akamai networks for Q3 2015, including:
- Year-over-year and quarter-by-quarter analysis
- Where and how attackers strike
- DDoS and web application attack activity by vector
- Global map of DDoS reflectors
- Sources of web application attacks by ASN
- DDoS spotlight: 222 Mpps mega attack and its payloads
- A look at web scrapers
- Cloud security resources: Q3 2015 threat advisory recap