China leads cyberattack traffic: About one-third of the world's cyberattack traffic in Q3 2012 originated in China, according to Akamai, which published its quarterly State of the Internet report on Wednesday. Many of those attacks target a specific type of Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) database. "China's growth from the second quarter was fairly significant, and somewhat surprising," the report said. In second place? The United States, from which 13 percent of cyberattacks originated between July and September. Russia, Taiwan and Turkey each accounted for less than 5 percent, says a Bloomberg article provided via The Cyberwire. Akamai noted that cyberattacks increased between Q2 and Q3 2012. "Towards the end of the third quarter, a set of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks targeted the Web sites of banks and other financial institutions. Among the attacks that targeted Akamai customers, we observed total traffic levels as high as 65 Gbps, with nearly a third of that targeting DNS infrastructure," the report said. Article
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Attack traffic, top originating countries (Image source: Akamai State of the Internet Q3 2012) |
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