The technique was used in an attack in the quarter that generated peak traffic of more than 200 Gb per second. Year-to-year, the average size of attacks grew 133 percent. The use of reflection and amplification contributed to a 39 percent increase in the average attack bandwidth in the first quarter of last year. More than half of DDoS attacks in first quarter were aimed at the media and entertainment industry, Akamai report says. The services have always been available, so why attackers have suddenly started using them for DDoS assaults is a mystery.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2145540/ddos-attackers-change-techniques-to-wallop-sites.html