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from the whole-lot-of-nothing-going-on dept.
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.
(Score: 2, Informative) by fubari on Thursday September 22 2016, @04:47PM
Krebs wrote up some detail, an interesting read (when it works :-) was fine 2 min ago, now... not so much).
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/09/krebsonsecurity-hit-with-record-ddos/ [krebsonsecurity.com]
Anyway, I ound that link in TFA, should (imo) be the fine article.
(Score: 2) by Fnord666 on Thursday September 22 2016, @05:15PM
(Score: 1) by fubari on Thursday September 22 2016, @07:14PM
fair point, it has been hit or miss