DDOS attacks growing in size but shortening duration

ddosinfogramJeff Wilson with Infonetics Research suggests that attack motivations include:

  • politically motivated
  • state-sponsored electronics warfare
  • social activism
  • organized crime
  • general mischief

Additionally,

  • more than 2500 DDOS attacks per day
  • over 1100 botnets active as of end of July
  • duration of attack trending down — 86% < 1 hr

Network Computing suggests that reasons for increased attack size stem from:

  • increased capability of hosts (faster computers)
  • many more highly effective botnets are active 
  • businesses have higher capacity, so attacks need higher capacity in order to execute an effective DDOS attack

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