Akamai Says That A Huge Portion Of Cyberattacks Come From China
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Shara Tibken of CNET shares Akamai’ statement about the significant growth of cyberwarfare occurrences in 2012. This attacks are said to be three times as much compared to 2011 based on the reports from Akamai’s customers that were targeted by 768 DDoS attacks.
Akamai explained at CNET that “In many ways, DDoS has become the weapon of choice for multiple types of attackers, from political activists to criminals, and potentially even nation-states,”
Currently, Akamai is counting the serious attacks or attacks that require human intervention to solve. Akamai is currently not counting the lower-level attacks or attacks that require few to zero human interaction or those that are automatically mitigated.
Akamai explains in CNET that China is still the largest offender of cyberattacks. In the 4th quarter, 41 percent of attacks are identified to come from China and on the third quarter, 33 percent are identified to originate from that country. Akamai explained at CNET that
“Looking at the full year, China has clearly had the most variability (and growth) across the top countries/regions, originating approximately 16 [percent] of observed attack traffic during the first half of 2012, doubling into the third quarter, and growing further in the fourth quarter,”
Akamai admits that it does not have a complete understanding why the cyberattacks from China have developed so much.
