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

Link11's European Cyber Report 2026 finds that DDoS attacks in 2025 became a persistent structural threat across Europe, with record bandwidth (three attacks >1 Tb/s, peak 1.33 Tbit/s), massive cumulative volume (509 TB), extreme durations (longest 12,388 minutes), high recurrence (70%+ chance of follow-ups, avg 2.8 follow-ups) and a shift toward combined high-volume, long-duration and Layer 7/application-level tactics; the report recommends always-on DDoS protection, WAAP, and AI-driven detection and mitigation as strategic defenses.