32 CYBER CRIME & CYBER SECURITY TRENDS IN AFRICA Figure 9. Top 10 Attacks Originating from Africa—2016 500  Anonymous open proxy activity detected 464  Bash CGI Environment Variable CVE-2014-6271 Attack Event Count (Thousands) 400  Generic SSH Brute Force Attack  Fake Scan Webpage 300  Microsoft Windows LSASS Buffer Overrun Attack 276  DNS Amplification Attack  OpenSSL TLS 'heartbeat' Extension Information Disclosure 200  Generic Wordpress Multiple Security Vulnerabilities 100 70  Wordpress Arbitrary File Download 62 45 23 19 19 16 14  Unix/Linux HTTP Server Security Bypass Globally, there were nearly 16 million Anonymous open proxy activity detected events during the reporting period, which accounted for 6.0% of all global attacks (see Table 8). For the top 10 African attacks, Symantec compared the number of attack incidents against the total global number of incidents to determine whether Africa was a large source of those attacks globally. Symantec observed that 3% of all Anonymous open proxy activity originated from Africa during the reporting period (see Figure 10). Globally, Africa was not a significant source for the top 10 attacks.