"Duration of Application DDoS Attacks Increasing, Some go on For Days"

Researchers at Imperva have found that there have been seven major application DDoS attacks over the previous month.  Over 150,000 requests per second (RPS) were identified. Two of the seven attacks lasted five and six days consecutively, which is an unusual occurrence, as most (70% of those in May) DDoS attacks typically last less than 24 hours. The average DDoS event in April originated from 300 IPs. The two significant events in May were from 28,000 and 3,000 unique IPs. The most targeted industries overall were news (38%), business (25%) and financial services (19%).  The top countries from which DDoS attacks originate are China (26%), US (15%) and the Philippines (7%).

Help Net Security reports: "Duration of Application DDoS Attacks Increasing, Some go on For Days"