DDoS
We've curated 125 cybersecurity statistics about DDoS to help you understand how these disruptive attacks, which overwhelm networks and services, are evolving in 2025. Stay informed on the latest techniques and defenses against this growing threat!
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The technology sector represented 45% of all network-layer DDoS attacks, up from 8.77% in 2024.
Peak network-layer DDoS attack volumes reached almost 30 Tbps.
Network-layer DDoS attacks targeting OSI layers 3–4 increased 168.2% year over year.
Web DDoS attacks targeting OSI layer 7 increased by 101.4% compared to 2024.
Most high-impact Web DDoS attacks now last less than 60 seconds.
EMEA accounted for 57% of all Web DDoS attacks globally.
In the second half of 2025 the average Radware customer experienced more than 25,351 network-layer DDoS attacks, averaging 139 attacks per day.
North America accounted for 63.1% of all network-layer DDoS attacks globally, followed by the Middle East (16.1%) and Europe (13.7%).
60% of all reported cyber incidents in 2024 were Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks.
29% of leaders at financial services firms say they are unprepared to recover effectively from a Distributed Denial of Service attack.
20% of organizations cited denial-of-service attempts as the most common API security problem.
DDoS short bursts used as reconnaissance were also observed: 405 events in less than 5 minutes and 56 events in less than 10 seconds.
State-aligned operations, often driven by low-impact DDoS campaigns targeting EU Member States’ organisations’ websites, resulted in service disruption in only 2% of incidents.
Within Public Administration, incidents were dominated by low-impact DDoS campaigns (94.8%).
Comcast Business detected 44,000 DDoS attacks, which often utilised short bursts and carpet-bombing techniques to overwhelm and test defenses
The highest maximum number of packets transmitted per second recorded was 207,090,400 packets per second in the first half of 2025. 207 million packets per second can paralyze firewalls, servers, and entire networks within seconds.
The largest DDoS attack between January and July 2025 reached a maximum bandwidth of over 1.2 Tbit/s. This is double the largest attack in the first half of 2024, which was 694 Gbit/s.
In 2025, 98% of DDoS attacks routed malicious traffic through the US.
The maximum DDoS attack duration in June 2024 was only 73 minutes.
Backbone DDoS attacks (targeting Internet service provider or data center infrastructure) increased by 143% compared to the first half of 2024.