Link11 Releases European Cyber Report 2026: DDoS Attacks Become a Constant Threat

Link11's European Cyber Report 2026 shows a sharp increase in DDoS activity in 2025 — a 75% rise in documented attacks, multiple terabit-scale incidents (peak 1.33 Tbit/s), a longest single attack of 12,388 minutes, 509 TB cumulative data in a coordinated series, and attackers increasingly using long-duration, adaptive and Layer 7 techniques; the report urges always-on DDoS protection, WAAP for web/API security, and automated AI-based mitigation as part of business continuity planning.