Link11's European Cyber Report Finds New DDoS records for The First Half of 2026
Frankfurt am Main, Germany, September 3rd, 2026/CyberNewswire/--Link11 has released its European Cyber Report for the first half of 2026, providing an overview of DDoS attack activity targeting European companies. Although the number of DDoS attacks on the Link11 network decreased by 42 percent, the report records new highs for attack intensity across bandwidth, packet rate and cumulative data volume, indicating that attacks have become more targeted and intense.
New Records for Bandwidth, Packet Rate, and Data Volume
Although the number of attacks decreased by 42 percent, record highs were reached in terms of attack intensity in every category. The highest measured bandwidth attack reached 2.3 Tbit/s—85 percent higher than the previous peak of 1.2 Tbit/s in the first half of 2025.
The packet rate followed the same pattern, reaching a new peak of 322 million packets per second — up 56 percent from 207 million packets per second a...
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