The second half of 2012 is started with an sensible increase of Distributed denial-of-service attacks against financial institutions and banking that caused several problems to the victims. China confirms the leadership for origin DDoS attacks, 35.46%, mainly linked by the effect of botnet diffusion followed by U.S. at 27.85% percent and India at 7,8%. The average attack duration is slight increased passing from 17 hours to 19 hours and also Packet-per-second volume increase of 33 percent.”]

