Dark Reading: Prolexic Technologies, now part of Akamai, today issued a high alert threat advisory on NTP amplification DDoS attacks. This attack method has surged in popularity this year, fueled by the availability of new DDoS toolkits that make it simple to generate high-bandwidth, high-volume DDoS attacks against online targets.

 
“During the month of February, we saw the use of NTP amplification attacks surge 371% against our client base,” said Stuart Scholly, SVP/GM Security, Akamai Technologies. “In fact, the largest attacks we’ve seen on our network this year have all been NTP amplification attacks.”