Unfortunately linode hasn't specified enough to give specifics about that. From what they have said however, it seems to me like this is generally a very "smar

Unfortunately linode hasn't specified enough to give specifics about that. From what they have said however, it seems to me like this is generally a very "smart" attack. Unfortunately, a smart attack can be done much more cheaply in terms of botnet capacity than a dumb volumetric attack (this still combines a volumetric attack, but, in targeted ways). I have delt with these kinds of attacks (defending them) and they are, unfortunately, much too cheap to pull off. Botnet capacity is dirt cheap, if you're willing to spend the time to find/compromise your own botnet hosts, its effectively free.