Application-layer DDoS attacks dropped for the first time in a while, by 8 percent. Analyst: Growth in attack tools for infrastructure-level attacks may have skewed numbers a bit toward those attacks. Akamai: Volumetric DDoSes are not as big as they used to be, and more are being moved up the stack. Attackers are not blasting high-volume attacks aimed at sapping bandwidth, says security evangelist Martin McKeay. “Low and slow” attacks are tougher to track and detect, so they can be more effective.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/no-sign-of-ddoses-diminishing