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This sets a nice historical perspective on evolution of DDoS attacks and Internet in general. >The cyberattacks that had begun on April 26 averaged about 1,000

This sets a nice historical perspective on evolution of DDoS attacks and Internet in general. >The cyberattacks that had begun on April 26 averaged about 1,000 packets on the first day. By the second day, the attack rates averaged 2,000 packets per hour, a rate that increased exponentially throughout the three weeks of attacks. May 9 marked the heaviest day of cyberattacks, averaging a rate of over 4 million incoming packets of information per second at hundreds of targeted websites. 2007: 1000 packets per hour is a "DDoS attack". 2016: New DDoS Attack record 1.5+ Tbps

throwaway7767 10y ago
> 2007: 1000 packets per hour is a "DDoS attack". Where do you get this from? If we're talking brute-force DDoS (overloading packet processing or link throughput), 1000 packets/hr was certainly not a DDoS attack in 2007. In fact, you'd get much more than 1000 packets/hr on any machine connected to the internet even without doing anything. If you're talking about some smarter kind of DDoS (slowloris-style), then you can do a lot of damage with few packets. But that's a different attack and if you found similar flaws today you could exploit them with a similarly small number of packets. If you're referring to the timeline in your earlier quote, I don't think they mean that the initial load was intended to knock anything offline. It's just a classic ramp-up often used in DDoS attacks, because it lets you determine the targets breaking point exactly before you go all in.
- ComodoHacker 10y ago
  >Where do you get this from? I cited the source.