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

Link11's European Cyber Report 2026 reports a sharp increase in DDoS activity in 2025—75% more attacks year-over-year, multiple terabit-scale incidents (peak 1.33 Tbit/s), a coordinated series totaling 509 TB, and the longest attack lasting 12,388 minutes—finding that systems in the Link11 network were targeted 88% of the time; the report highlights a shift to long-duration, hybrid volume-and-application-level campaigns and recommends always-on DDoS protection, WAAP, and AI-powered detection.