Distributed Denial of Service attacks result in damaging consequences, perhaps most notably lowered customer confidence and lost revenue. And this year, a new DDoS trend has emerged that is making them even scarier – they're going undetected, with 96% of attacks taking place in less than half an hour and some lasting just a few minutes.

A DDoS Trends and Analysis Report from the Hudson, Mass.-based Corero Network Security highlights this new trend in DDoS attack activity: Quick-hitting DDoS attacks and partial link saturation attacks.

Targeted DDoS attacks are also growing quickly. Within each vertical market, there are variations in the motivations behind DDoS attacks, including cyber terrorism, political or ideological intentions, fraud, ransom, monetary gain, data exfiltration attempts and even competitive advantage gains. The drivers are endless, and the attacks keep on coming.