The distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) spread from the Spamhaus website to the rest of the Internet, affecting millions of users. The attack may be the largest ever seen in cyberspace, exploits the architecture of the Web to marshal enormous amounts of traffic that can be aimed at a website to disrupt service to it. An Internet activist, Sven Olaf Kamphuis, who claimed to be a representative for the attackers, told The Times the assault was in retaliation for Spamha “abusing their influence””]