Volume based attacks are by far the most common type of DDoS attacks.
According to Arbor Networks, 65% of DDoS attacks are volumetric in nature.
Volume-based attacks are characterized by an excessive amount of traffic (sometimes in excess of 100 Gbps). They do not mandate large amounts of traffic to be generated by one location or one source.
The following is an example of such an attack:
- NTP Amplification: The NTP amplification attack is a volume based DDoS attack in which an attacker exploits the publicly accessible Network Time Protocol (NTP) server functionality. This command, called monlist, sends the requester a list of the last six hundred hosts that were connected to the queried server. So, for a small query, ...
