During this time, YouTube user Tournaments Replays used Norse's map to spot a significant distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack originating in China, and appearing to attack the U.S. This is equal to more than 0.5 per cent of the world’s total gross domestic product, damaging the global economy almost as much as illegal drugs and piracy, according to ‘The Global Cost of Cybercrime’ report.įacebook experienced an outage on 19 April that meant users were unable to log on for 30 minutes (pictured). While the National Nuclear Security Administration, in charge of America’s nuclear stockpile, also saw 10 million attacks per day in 2013, while the UK in total reported 120,000 daily attacks in 2011.Įarlier this month, a security report by security firm McAfee found that cybercrime is now such big business, it is worth more than the wealth of some countries.Īs a business, cybercrime would be ranked 27th in the world based on revenue, and the attacks are currently costing the world more than £238 billion ($400 billion) a year. Department of Defense announced it was subjected to 10 million cyber attacks a day in 2012. This lets the company tell when and where an attack is originating from, creating this live map from around the world To gather the data Norse uses a worldwide honeypot, in essence a purposefully vulnerable network that knows when it is being attacked.

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