As predicted in last month's report, distributed reflection denial of service (DrDoS) attacks have continued to increase in size and frequency. During the month of January, Black Lotus observed attacks peaking at 136 Gbps in bit volume. On February 9, 2014 NTP DrDoS attacks scaled dramatically increasing to an extremely impressive, record breaking 421 Gbps.
In the February edition:
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In the February edition:
- Distributed reflection denial of service (DrDoS) continues to dominate, with NTP DrDoS representing 40% of all severe attacks
- The frequency of DDoS attacks has nearly doubled since January 2014
- Forward looking observations into February 2014 DDoS attack data
