Data comes from security vendor Prolexic, which counts ten of the world’s major banks as clients. DDOS attacks also rose in intensity, with increases in both bandwidth and packet-per-second rates. More than 70 percent of the malicious attack traffic came from China, the report says. The most likely explanation for this behavior is the fact that Asia continues to see increased penetration of high-speed internet connectivity, it says. Unpatched and pirated copies of Microsoft Windows is known to be prevalent in Asia.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2131463/financial-services-under-more-frequent-ddos-attacks.html