StormWalls’ analytics center has reviewed DDoS attacks against the company’s clients in the first quarter of 2025, across 8 different verticals. Here’s a list of the most — and least — attacked industries.
In Q1 2025, telecommunications, entertainment, and government services accounted for nearly 70% of all recorded DDoS traffic globally, an analysis by StormWall shows, which is a drastically different picture from the end of Q4 2025, when hackers mostly targeted fintech APIs.
The telecommunications industry (28%, +48%) more than tripled its presence compared to the previous quarter. Entertainment platforms followed closely (26%, +31%), but it’s in the government sector (14%, +74%) where StormWall’s analysis records the highest growth spike. Most of these attacks are likely politically motivated, according to the cybersecurity firm.
StormWall research shows a lot of botnet activity in Q1 2025, which is characteristic of organized and state sponsored threat actors. For example, the “Eleven11bot” botnet, which consists of over 86,000 hijacked IoT devices ran attacks non-stop. This botnet launched waves of high-intensity DDoS attacks, in some cases flooding targets with traffic surges measured in tens of millions of packets per second.
“We’re in a situation where roughly 70% of the attacks we prevent are related to hacktivism, which we can tell by analysing traffic sources,” said Ramil Khantimirov, founder of StormWall. “Hacktisvists tend to attack in a way that makes the biggest splash in the news and choose targets based on profiles rather than monetary gain, so we’re seeing telecoms, gaming platforms and governments take the hit again, and fintech is less in the focus.”
Other sectors saw more modest activity, which seems to align with the findings. Transportation accounted for 9% of DDoS volume, while finance, which dominated Q4 2024 with 28% of attack share, saw a sharp drop to just 8%. Retail (6%), logistics (4%) and education (3%) round out the landscape with comparatively lower volumes and modest growth of less than 20%.
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