Verisign Distributed Denial of Service Trends Report

The Verisign Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Trends Report contains the observations and insights derived from mitigations enacted on behalf of, and in cooperation with, customers of Verisign DDoS Protection Services, and the security research of Verisign iDefense Security Intelligence Services. It represents a unique view into the attack trends unfolding online for the previous quarter, including attack statistics, DDoS malicious code analysis and behavioral trends.

For the period starting July 1, 2014 and ending Sept. 30, 2014, Verisign observed many notable trends, including a rise in the average number of attacks per targeted customer, exploitation of the recently publicized SSDP vulnerability and some notable malicious code trends that will likely contribute to increased DDoS attack activity in the future.