Based on the NTT 2016 Worldwide Risk Intelligence Report, 65 percent of assaults across 217 states came in 2015 from US IP addresses. During 2013, 49 percent of cyber attacks originated in 2014 and in the US, the amount grew to 56 percent. In 2015, security risks were accumulated from 8,000 customers of the NTT Group including Dimension Data NTT,, Solutionary Com Security and more.

The amount of assaults from UK-based addresses increased to five percent in 2015 from three percent in 2014.

The report also suggests that cybercriminals are embracing low cost, highly accessible, and geographically strategic infrastructure to perform actions that are malicious.

Low cost of US cloud hosting services and “The US functions as a leading source of hostile action, because of the ease of provisioning,” says Dimension Data’s group executive – security, Matthew Gyde. The real attacker could be anyplace on the planet While the source IP address relies in the US. Due to the ease with strike sources can frequently be indicative of the state where the goal is situated, or possibly of where the attacker is able to undermine or rent servers, rather than where the strike really originates.”