Sûnnet Beskerming researchers observed an interesting deviation in global network traffic over the last 24 hours, particularly for South American, Asian, and Australian networks. Normally, global Internet traffic (as observed by the Internet Traffic Report) oscillates around nine per cent packet loss, with global response times of 138 ms, and the internally derived traffic index at around 79.
Sustained over the last 24 hours, the traffic index has dipped almost five per cent, packet loss has climbed to 11 per cent, and the global response time to almost 150 ms.
Normal spikes and dips as observed on the Internet Traffic Report show up as no more than three- or four-hour blocks of odd results before settling back into normalcy. This latest spike and dip has been sustained for at least 18 hours, with a rapid ramp up in the six hours prior to the peaks (and lows) being reached.
When the figures are considered against the seven-day average, and the 30-day average, the deviation appears to be quite significant and seems to mark a distinct event or set of events. When the reports for Asia, South America, and Australia are looked at in isolation, the three regions appear to be suffering from a related event, with similar patterns being observed in the data being put forward for those regions. Data for Europe and North America indicates that whatever is affecting the other regions, it isn't affecting Europe or North America. Independently sourced data at Keynote (using their Internet Health Report) indicates that there is nothing adversely impacting the US at this time.
Either these regions are experiencing the first stages of a global event, or they contain networks that are under a sustained attack for some specific reason.
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