DDoS and other anomalous web traffic behavior in selected countries

Abstract

Distributed Denial of Service attacks (DDoS) are coordinated efforts, by human or machine, to overwhelm web sites, and at a minimum, to cause them to shut down. Increasingly, the use of this type of malicious software has grown exponentially in the past decade, and despite considerable research, it has proven very difficult to identify, detect or prevent such attacks. Our current research attempts to analyze the frequency of such attacks in a variety of countries, and to develop an index to identify countries which may have the greatest risk of DDoS attacks.