There were nearly double the number of DDoS attacks this year and half of those used multi-vector attacks. There was a 200% increase in the number of 100Gbps-plus attacks from a year ago and each DDoS attack lasted 28% longer, according to analysis by Akamai's Prolexic Security Engineering and Research Team (PLXsert). DDoS-for-hire services are thriving, so much so, that it helped non-techie attackers launch attacks.
“An incredible number of DDoS attacks occurred in the fourth quarter, almost double what we observed in Q4 a year ago,"
said John Summers, vice president of Akamai’s Cloud Security Business Unit. Akamai said it mitigated nine attacks that exceeded 100 Gbps; there was a 52% percent increase in average peak bandwidth of DDoS attacks compared to Q4 2013.
