Jeff Wilson with Infonetics Research suggests that attack motivations include:
- politically motivated
- state-sponsored electronics warfare
- social activism
- organized crime
- general mischief
- 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