I found the following story which explains the nature of the DDoS threat facing us all. In the past, the main culprit of DDoS attacks were compromised computers which partially resulted in the multi-million dollar business of antivirus programs and similar software. Nowadays, the source is more likely to be a compromised CCTV camera, DVR, or some other device on the IoT.
Last week, the hosting provider OVH faced 1Tbps DDoS attack, likely the largest one ever seen.
The OVH founder and CTO Octave Klaba reported the 1Tbps DDoS attack on Twitter sharing an image that lists the multiple sources of the attack.
Klaba explained that the servers of its company were hit by multiple attacks exceeding 100 Gbps simultaneously concurring at 1 Tbps DDoS attack. One of the attacks documented by the OVH reached 93 MMps and 799 Gbps.
Now Klaba added further information on the powerful DDoS attacks, the CTO of the OVH claimed that the botnet used by attackers is powered by more than 150,000 Internet of Things (IoT) devices, including cameras and DVRs.
"This botnet with 145607 cameras/dvr (1-30Mbps per IP) is able to send >1.5Tbps DDoS. Type: tcp/ack, tcp/ack+psh, tcp/syn." — Octave Klaba / Oles (@olesovhcom) 23 settembre 2016
The bad news for the OVH company is that attacks are still ongoing and the size of the botnet is increasing.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by zocalo on Thursday September 29 2016, @10:34AM
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!