I don't think this DDOS is an attempt at lowering the difficulty.
More likely a botnet owner was pissed at being banned from a certain pool & his btc being donated to the faucet.

sounds bad

Pool attacks are a good thing because they increase "effective difficulty".  

BOTNETS are in computer terminology AIDS for PCs

I think it's more sinister.  An attack by those who are threatened by what BTC is capable of.

facepalm...do you know how botnets work?

The only real way for admins to stop a ddos attack from crippling is to A) wait it out B) have so much connection bandwidth a ddos attack does nothing. So you are telling server owners to buy ridiculous amounts of bandwidth?

It's like saying the solution to people stealing gas out of your car is to buy more gas.

Yeah, but the hacker controlling a group of 25,000 infected PCs on broadband has very serious bandwidth, and he doesn't have to pay for it.

25k bots is a hell of a lot, do you have any figures for this or are you making it up?