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Brian Krebs' Blog Hit by 665 Gbps DDoS Attack

posted by martyb on Thursday September 22 2016, @02:39PM   Printer-friendly
from the whole-lot-of-nothing-going-on dept.

Fnord666 writes:

An article today on SecurityWeek details what may be the largest DDoS attack ever seen. The target? Brian Krebs' web site of course.

Investigative cybercrime journalist Brian Krebs reported on Tuesday that his website, KrebsOnSecurity.com, was hit by a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that could be the largest in history. According to Krebs, his site was targeted with various types of DDoS attacks, including SYN and HTTP floods. The attack peaked at 665 Gbps and 143 Mpps (million packets per second), but it was successfully mitigated by Akamai, the company that provides DDoS protection services for KrebsOnSecurity.

Akamai told Krebs that this attack was nearly twice the size of the largest attack they had previously encountered. It's worth noting that Arbor Networks reported in January that some of its customers had been hit by attacks that peaked at 500, 450 and 425 Gbps.

Quite the feather in the cap of Akamai to be able to mitigate this level of attack.

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 22 2016, @03:03PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 22 2016, @03:03PM (#405148)

    Never before seen in at least the last ten thousand years of human recorded records.

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 22 2016, @03:12PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 22 2016, @03:12PM (#405154)

    The previous one was much larger but it deleted all the records.

    • (Score: 5, Funny) by DeathMonkey on Thursday September 22 2016, @06:05PM

      by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday September 22 2016, @06:05PM (#405210) Journal

      Lisa: I think a hurricane is coming!
      Homer: Oh Lisa! There's no record of a hurricane ever hitting Springfield.
      Lisa: Yes, but the records only go back to 1978 when the Hall of Records was mysteriously blown away.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 23 2016, @07:17AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 23 2016, @07:17AM (#405453)

    Looks like he's reset his DNS to local host now. 127.0.0.1 must be "getting a lot of hits".

    Btw does Krebs have anything to do with the site "shadowserver.org" or that foundation?
    That site seems to be roaming the net trying to change router firmware these days.
    Think I saw Krebs' name associated with that url? Does any one know?
    184.105.139.78 scan-13k.shadowserver.org