Number of DDoS attacks down but speed and size increases

The number of DDoS attacks fell more than 40 percent to 97,700 attacks in the second quarter of 2016 according to the latest threat report from DDoS security service Nexusguard. The report reveals there was a sharp dip in distributed reflection denial of service (DrDoS) attacks, with DNS-based attacks falling 97 percent compared to the previous quarter. However, recent DDoS attacks on cybercrime journalist Brian Krebs and OVH, a French internet hosting provider, broke records for speed and size. Nexusguard researchers put the drop in reflection attacks and the success of these massive attacks to hackers favoring Mirai-style botnets of… [Continue Reading]