A Denial of Service attack involves flooding a server with access request, overwhelming it, then causing it to shut down. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks take this one step further by bombarding them with traffic from multiple sources known as a botnet. These type of attacks can have severe consequences for internal users, as well as customers needing to access your services.
Organizations need to be well prepared for DDoS threats because their impact can be immediate and costly. DDoS attacks can disrupt online services, affect critical business operations, damage brand reputation, and lead to significant financial losses. DDoS attacks can last hours, or even days, and can also cause multiple disruptions throughout a singular attack. Both personal and business devices are susceptible to them.
At Expert Insights, we have identified various statistics and trends that cover the DDoS market today, as well as the wider threat threat landscape. Read on to get the latest stats and threat trends for DDoS attacks.
General Market Statistics
- The DDoS protection market is valued at $4.7 billion USD as of 2025. This is projected to grow to $9.1 billion USD by 2030 at a CAGR of 14%.
- By deployment model (cloud, on-premises, or hybrid), the cloud segment has the largest market share at 43%.
- By organization size, SMEs take up about 58% of the market share.
- By industry, the BFSI (Banking, Financial Services, Insurance) segment has the largest market share at 22%. The healthcare industry is expected to see the fastest rate of growth of about 19% during the forecast period.
- The following factors have been identified as drivers for the DDoS protection market:
- Increasing instances of sophisticated DDoS attacks
- Emergence of cloud-based and hybrid DDoS protection services
- Expansion of IoT devices and connected technologies
Cloudflare’s 2025 Q1 DDoS Threat Report
- In the first quarter of 2025, Cloudflare blocked 20.5 million DDoS attacks. That represents a 358% year-over-year (YoY) increase and a 198% quarter-over-quarter (QoQ) increase. The figure from this quarter alone already almost reaches the amount of DDoS attacks (21.3 million) blocked in the entirety of 2024.
- During this period, Cloudflare blocked approximately 700 hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks that exceeded 1 Tbps — an average of around 8 attacks per day. Approximately 4 out of every 100,000 network-layer DDoS attacks were hyper-volumetric.
- The majority of Cloudflare customers surveyed did not know who was responsible for DDoS attacks on their systems. The ones that did know reported their competitors as the number one threat actor behind the attacks (39%). The next most commonly known perpetrators of DDoS attacks were state-sponsored attackers (17%) and disgruntled users / customers (17%).
- Most DDoS attacks only have a short duration. 89% of Layer 3/4 DDoS attacks and 75% of HTTP DDoS attacks end within 10 minutes.
- The top three most attacked industries are gambling / casinos, telecom, and IT.
- The top three most attacked regions are Germany, Turkey, and China.
Additional DDoS Statistics
- The largest DDoS attack recorded so far took place in late 2024. This attack reached 5.6 terabits per second of traffic and lasted for 80 seconds.
- In 2024, Akamai observed an increase in “horizontal DDoS attacks.” Almost 30% of the DDoS attacks detected by Akamai targeted multiple destinations.
- This is an increase from less than 20% of attacks in 2022.
- The rise of AI has made it significantly easier for threat actors to identify and target weak points.
- Almost all the DDoS attacks mitigated by Akamai in 2024 were highly sophisticated attacks that employed multiple attack vectors, used either simultaneously or in a rapidly evolving cycle to overwhelm DDoS defense platforms that depend on automation only.
- Akamai has also observed an increase in DDoS attacks that had a maximum duration of 60 minutes or longer.
- More than 60% of DDoS attacks had a DNS component.
For more information on DDoS attacks and the threats that your organization may face, check out some of the following articles from Expert Insights:
- Top Cloud DDoS Mitigation Software
- Top Distributed Denial Of Service (DDoS) Defense Solutions
- Category: Web Security
