Leading industries targeted by DDoS attack traffic 2017

Industries most frequently targeted by denial of service (DDoS) attacks worldwide as of 4th quarter 2017

The data displays the percentage of worldwide denial of service attack traffic in the fourth quarter of 2017, sorted by industry. During that period of time, 79% of DDoS attack traffic were directed towards the gaming industry. Internet and telecom ranked second with 6% of DDoS attack traffic.

Gaming 79
Internet and telecom 6
Financial services 4
Software and technology 4
Education 3
Retail and consumer goods 3
Media and entertainment 1
Other 1