Akamai: 38% Of Malicious Internet Traffic Comes From Indonesia

[Matsuda]

Internet content delivery network Akamai has released its "State of the Internet" report for the second quarter of 2013. Highlights include the change in worldwide connection speeds and the huge increase of "attack traffic" originating in Indonesia.

According to the report, in Q2 2013 the global average connection speed increased 5.2% to 3.3 Mbps, with the global average peak connection speed rising 0.1% to 18.9 Mbps.

The fastest internet in the world can be found in Hong Kong, where the average peak connection speed reaches 65.1 Mbps, while South Korea is in second place with 53.3 Mbps. In the United States, the average connection speed is 8.7 Mbps, and the average peak connection speed is 36.3 Mbps.

Looking at global average mobile connection speeds, they ranged from 0.5 Mbps to 9.7 Mbps. Overall, the volume of mobile data traffic grew 14 percent compared to Q1 and nearly doubled year-over-year.

As far as global internet penetration goes, Akamai saw 752 million unique IPv4 addresses connect to its platform — a 2 percent increase over Q1 2013 and a 13 percent increase compared to Q2 2012. The global number of unique IP addresses grew by almost 19 million in Q2.

Akamai's report also looks into malicious internet traffic. According to the report, 38 percent of such traffic comes from Indonesia — a big jump from the 21 percent in the first quarter. China is in second place with 33 percent (down from 34 percent), followed by the U.S. with 6.9 percent (down from 8.3 percent in Q1).

All in all, the top 10 countries/regions generated 89 percent of observed attack traffic, up from 82 percent in Q1. Akamai does note, however, that the country from which the attack traffic originates does not necessarily need to be the place where the attacker resides — he/she could be anywhere in the world, launching attacks from compromised systems elsewhere.

The report highlights attacks from a group called the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), which targeted news and media companies during Q2 2013. The spear-phishing attacks went after email accounts of employees, trying to gain access to targets' Twitter feeds and similar sensitive info.




You can find the full report over at www.akamai.com/stateoftheinternet.

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Edited October 16, 2013 by Matsuda

[nanoman]

Thanks For the Info .

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Please Any One Can Suggest Method To Stop AKAMAI From Contacting My PC

Most of The Times Those Connections Are in Time_wait State

Thanks in Advance ;)

[mazigh]

Thanks For the Info .

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Please Any One Can Suggest Method To Stop AKAMAI From Contacting My PC

Most of The Times Those Connections Are in Time_wait State

Thanks in Advance ;)

Disallow the process svchost.exe from connecting to internet using a firewall

[NOP-X4]

Thanks For the Info .

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Please Any One Can Suggest Method To Stop AKAMAI From Contacting My PC

Most of The Times Those Connections Are in Time_wait State

Thanks in Advance ;)

Use peerblock to stop akamai from contacting to your PC. :)

[nanoman]

Disallow the process svchost.exe from connecting to internet using a firewall

Use peerblock to stop akamai from contacting to your PC. :)

Thanks For Suggestions NOP-X4 & mazigh ^_^

I will GO With Beer Block Solution :)

Edited October 17, 2013 by nanoman

[fonnyl]

I'm from Indonesia...

[lordi]

oh boy, :unsure: ,

but you can count me , that Im not part of those things :lol:

nice info btw ^_^

[Arachnoid]

According to the report, 38 percent of such traffic comes from Indonesia

Rooted from Indonesia but not necessarily the initiation point of the issue