The DDOS, together with removal of some bid walls to plunge the bid sum, and the multi-selling was a clear attempt at creating panic, but it failed miserably. Guess its Up for the short term.
Yeah, some people with lots of money on Gox, put up the walls, then hit the servers with DDOS, then pull the walls, and hoped for a sell off.
The question is, why put the walls back up? Was it a test?
Could have been I suppose, if they actually wanted the price to go down I think it would have worked better without the DDOS.
I think by now most people see the huge lag and no actual trades happening and therefor nothing happens.