All good coins will experience attacks. Its high time steem starts being attacked in my opinion. It now depends on devs to mitigate these attacks and the users to continue trusting to steem blockchain.

I personally am not afraid of what will happen in the next few months. the only real damage can be done from within so as long as the core dev do things right. We should be okay.

I think it also should be wise for the community to create more alternatives to steemit.com

its only by spreading the most vulnerable part of the platform (the UI) that the attacks can be less and less effective.