New figures reveal that distributed denial of service ( DDoS ) attacks rose significantly in the final quarter of 2008 , up 40 % compared to the previous quarter and 149 % YoY. according to its cloud services provider , Akamai , most of the attacks ( 97 % ) were infrastructure layer attacks . Those perpetrating the attacks tended to rely on ‘ stresser / booter - based botnets ’ , which launch reflection attacks by bouncing traffic off servers . These types of attacks have a time limit , so there was a notable fall in the average attack duration , however , more attacks were launched , with victims suffering repeat targeting . Gaming companies were heavily targeted ( 54 % ) primarily by the software and technology industry ( 23 % ) . Those targeted in web application attacks included retailers ( 59 % ) , media and entertainment ( 10 % ) , and travel and travel ( 10 % ) .
New figures reveal that distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks rose significantly in the final quarter of 2015, up 40% compared to the previous quarter and 149% YoY. According to US cloud services provider, Akamai, most of the attacks (97%) were infrastructure layer attacks. Those perpetrating the attacks continued to rely on ‘stresser/booter-based botnets’, which launch reflection attacks by bouncing traffic off servers. These types of attacks have a time limit, so there was a notable fall in the average attack duration, however, more attacks were launched, with victims suffering repeat targeting. Gaming companies were heavily targeted (54%) followed by the software and technology industry (23%). Those targeted in web application attacks included retailers (59%), media and entertainment (10%), and hotel and travel (10%).