Akamai’s Second Quarter, 2017 State of the Internet/Security Report released this week. Number of DDoS attacks is up 28% over the first quarter of 2017, but the number of devices used in the attacks is down 98%. The difference is the rise in the use of a malware variant called PBot to generate the traffic on systems — and the systems on which PBot runs. McKeay: “Within the next quarter or two we’re going to see some new attacks that are going to dwarf the attacks that we’ve seen in the past””]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/abtv/ddos-trends-show-big-impact-from-fewer-servers/a/d-id/735769