This may be a new attack tactic. By flooding the TX pool with large transactions they are trying to artificially jack up TX costs since the spam attack did not work.
As usual Monero will learn from this and improve. 👍 It is best to go through all this while Monero is still not a top world currency.
Wow. Is there an analysis or write-up on these attacks?
@Rucknium taking the lead on analysis here.
check the paper he wrote re: the first wave on his git here
https://github.com/Rucknium/misc-research/blob/main/Monero-Black-Marble-Flood/pdf/monero-black-marble-flood.pdf
then on this wave - fat input transactions filling blocks on XMR chain :