A new DDoS-as-a-service offering out of China operates in the open on the Web, adding 10,000 new infected machines as bots per day. IMDDOS, a commercial service for DDoS attacks, is now one of the largest active global botnets. The biggest changes in DDoS have been DDoS attackers aiming for the application layer rather than the network layer, at HTTP and DNS. DDoS is evolving into not just a technical consideration — there are social, political, and economic issues involved as well.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/new-wave-of-ddos-botnets-emerge