Kaspersky Lab releases latest statistics on distributed denial-of-service attacks in Q4 2018. Overall in 2018 the number of DDoS attacks dropped 13 percent compared to the previous year. But, the duration of a DDoS attack has reached record levels. Trend suggests market for unsophisticated, easy-to-organize attacks continues to shrink, researchers say. Britain is the most popular hosting country in terms of hosting servers, extending its lead from 37 to 4348 percent.
Source: https://threatpost.com/threatlist-latest-ddos-trends-by-the-numbers/141614/