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Title    KrebsOnSecurity Hit by 200 Gbps DDoS Attack
Date    Saturday February 15 2014, @08:00PM
Author    Dopefish
Topic   
from the when-the-going-gets-tough dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/02/15/1941221

nobbis writes:

"The recent KrebsOnSecurity 200 Gbps DDoS Attack used NTP servers for amplification, a technique that is becoming increasingly common according to Symantec NTP Reflection Attacks and Arbor Networks NTP Attacks.

A similar 400Gbps attack reported by Cloudflare against one of its clients 400 Gbps Attack was intense enough to cause network congestion in Europe.

Brian Krebs believes however that some of the DDoS-for-hire services behind the recent attacks maybe using Cloudflare as a safe haven, a view repudiated by Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare.

The attack against the KrebsOnSecurity site is thought to have been a demonstration of ability from a Hackforums.net user offering a DDoS-for-hire service."

Links
  1. "200 Gbps DDoS Attack" - http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/02/the-new-normal-200-400-gbps-ddos-attacks
  2. " NTP Reflection Attacks " - http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/hackers-spend-christmas-break-launching-large-scale-ntp-reflection-attacks
  3. "NTP Attacks" - http://www.arbornetworks.com/asert/2014/02/ntp-attacks-welcome-to-the-hockey-stick-era
  4. "400 Gbps Attack" - http://blog.cloudflare.com/technical-details-behind-a-400gbps-ntp-amplification-ddos-attack
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