Indonesia has overtaken China as the top source of cyber attack traffic, accounting for 38% in total, up from 21% at the beginning of 2013.
The usual suspect, China, has dropped to second place.
Bloomberg, reporting these figures from an Akamai report scheduled for release later today, said the US remained in third place, with 6.9% of the traffic.
In July, ITWeb reported Indonesia was emerging as a hacking superpower, and was rising swiftly through the ranks, from hosting 0.7% activity at the end of 2012, to 21% in the first three months of 2013.
Earlier this year, Akamai said in its blog that its "State of the Internet" report shows that, over and above the surge in the number of cyber attacks originating in Indonesia, the speed of the average Indonesian Internet connection had grown 125% in the second quarter in comparison to the corresponding period last year.
The cloud security provider said this possibly accounted for the sudden increase in cyber attacks, as a high use of Internet goes hand-in-hand with a higher risk of cyber crime activity.
Akamai's global distributed Intelligent Platform collects data on everything from connection speeds, attack traffic, and network connectivity, availability or latency problems. It also looks at IPv6 growth and transition progress, as well as traffic patterns across top Web sites and digital media providers.
National policy
In September, FutureGov Asia reported that Indonesia's minister of communications and information technology, Tifatul Sembiring, said the country needs to be wary of cyber security threats.
He also discussed the surge in Internet access across the region, and said this surge is making it necessary for the government to escalate the issue of cyber security in the national policy.
Sembiring pointed out that Indonesia has one of the highest Internet penetration rates in Southeast Asia, growing by 30 million users in 2010.
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