Top countries from which cyber attack traffic originates

As you can observe and learn each day, the cyber war is real and the cyber security is henceforth a strategic and critical asset in our digital-driven age. 

In the Fourth Quarter, 2014 State of the Internet Report, one can deeply uncover that:The majority of attack traffic continued to originate from the Asia Pacific region (59%), and China remained well ahead of the other countries/regions (41%), originating more than three times the observed attack traffic than the U.S. (13%).

According to the same report, the remaining countries/regions were all below 5%. Germany (1.8%) and Hong Kong (1.3%) joined the top 10 this quarter, pushing out Indonesia and Venezuela, while India was the only remaining top-10 country to see observed traffic percentages decline, dropping slightly from 2.9% in the third quarter to 2.4%. 

Port 23 (Telnet) remained the most popular target in the fourth quarter, accounting for 32% of observed attacks. All other ports in the top 10 increased their percentages, with significant increases for Ports 445 (Microsoft-DS), 8080 (HTTP Alternate), 3389 (Microsoft Terminal services) and 22 (SSH). 

The Commerce and Enterprise segments again accounted for the majority of attacks, while all industries except Enterprise saw increases in attacks from the third to fourth quarter.

Connectikpeople.co also recalls that, during the fourth quarter Akamai saw increased attacks in all regions: the Americas experiencing the majority of the growth, with 35% more reported attacks than the previous quarter (177). 

The Asia Pacific region saw a 17% quarterly increase in the number of attacks at 98, while Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) experienced marginally greater growth at 18% with 52 attacks.