Operation Payback distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack is declining, says Arbor Networks chief scientist. The small scale and low sophistication of the attack has meant that almost any Internet service provider should have been able to block it. Arbor Networks is billing as the biggest-ever study of real DDoS attack data, comprising 5,000 confirmed attacks over the past year that affected 37 large carriers and content providers around the world. Large, flooding attacks comprised 60% of all confirmed DDoS attacks in 2010, says Labovitz.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/anonymous-group-abandoning-ddos-attacks