Fewer attacks, more force: Link11’s European Cyber Report finds new DDoS records for the first half of 2026

Link11’s H1 2026 European Cyber Report finds a 42% drop in DDoS event counts but record-breaking attack intensity—peaking at 2.3 Tbit/s, 322 Mpps, and 705 TB cumulative traffic—driven by super-botnets and hijacked cloud servers; international law-enforcement takedowns reduced attack counts, while attackers increasingly use high-volume noise to conceal stealthy probes and re-target victims.