"Average DDoS attack sizes decrease 85% due to FBI’s shutdown of DDoS-for-hire websites"
The FBI shutdown 15 of the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) for hire vendors (booters). Since the 15 vendors have been shut down, it has reduced the overall number of attacks worldwide by nearly 11 percent compared to the same period last year. The Average size decreased by 85 percent as did the maximum attack size by 24 percent, showing that the crackdown that the FBI has done has helped in reducing the global impact of DDoS attacks.
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