DDoS Predictions for 2016, IBM Insights

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With thousands of security products and experts watching the underground for possible threats, IBM staff is providing some insights into new types of DDoS attacks that are to be expected during the next year.

The first type of DDoS attack, one that had already happened during August this year, abuses BitTorrent clients.
The second type of DDoS attack relies on a technique of hijacking one site's traffic to trigger unwanted activity on another.

The third type of DDoS attack expected in 2016 by IBM's experts is based on a research paper from May 2015, which described Temporal Lensing DDoS attacks.
These types of attacks have never been recorded until now, but they have all the advantages of a crippling DDoS attack.

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