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1. CYBERSECURITY &
DDOS ATTACK
STATISTICS
2017-2018
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2. Cybersecurity Facts
And Figures
43 percent of the cyber attacks target small businesses
230,000 new malware samples are produced every day — and this is predicted to keep on growing
Worldwide cybersecurity spending will reach $96 billion in 2018
Human attack surface to reach 6 billion people by 2022
Today, 99% of computers are vulnerable to cyber-attacks
68% of funds lost as a result of a cyber attack were declared unrecoverable
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3. Total Cost of a Successful
Cyber-attack
$5Million
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4. Organizations say their
security risk increased
significantly in 2017
7outof10
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5. Rising Threat Of
Cyber Attacks
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6. Ransomware damage costs
increase by 1500%
Over 75% of the healthcare
industry has been infected with
malware over last year
Large-scale DDoS attacks up
140% in 2017’s fourth quarter
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7. Cyber Crime
Cyber Espionage
Cyber Warfare
Hacktivism
Motivations Behind Attacks
Monthly Attacks
2017 Vs 2018
Motivations: 2017 Vs 2018
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10. DDoS attacks increased 91% in 2017
In Q3 2017, organizations faced an average of 237
DDoS attack attempts per month
In Q3's 2017 report found that 35% increase in
monthly attack attempts from Q2, and a whopping
91% increase from Q1
More than half of all attacks in Q4 (51.84%) were
aimed at targets in China
In Q4 2017, DDoS attacks affected 84 countries
DDoS Attack Statistics
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11. Peak Attack Sizes Through October 2017
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12. Application DDoS attacks increased in 2017
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20
30
40
VOIP SMTP DNS HTTPS HTTP
Application: 64%
7%
23%
33%
28%
37%
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IPv6
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Network: 51%
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