Akamai Report finds DDoS Attacks more Sophisticated, Adaptive

Akamai's report finds a 16% year-over-year increase in DDoS attacks (7,000 attacks over six months) with rising sophistication, including adaptive attack patterns and non-botnet volunteer-driven floods; it documents a 1.35 Tbps memcached reflection DDoS (massive amplification) and large-scale bot-driven credential stuffing against the hotel and travel industry (112 billion bot requests, 3.9 billion malicious login attempts), noting Russia and China as prominent traffic sources alongside the U.S.