Yeah the servers were just sitting there humming along waiting for something to do but nobody could reach them. It's really mind blowing to see just how many of these attacks happen around the world each day:
http://www.digitalattackmap.com/
If only everyone used a good malware blocker on their computer these attackers would have a lot less resources at their disposal to drive malicious traffic at websites.
you dont understand that you dont need anyones computer to do a ddos, various ways people have made it possible is by infecting but not limited to; cable boxes, dvrs, and other machines that have never and will never have protections.
They also can use boxes that they buy that supports enough transmission data. If it was as simple as malware protection it would be done by now. Thats not the solution. The blunt truth is that there is no protection to ddos.
Its like a battle for arms races one side creates an attack and the defenders create a wall, the attackers build a latter. In this case theres always gonna be a latter to get around the next wall :/. Which is good cuzz that means cyber security jobs.
https://cybermap.kaspersky.com/
this is also a good site.
Yea, as of right now there are 159 ddos attacks at the time of my post :/ looks like some hobbits are at fun

.. cant we all just go play a video game
it seens brazil has been attacking everyone for months