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GitHub Hit With Largest Ever DDoS: 1.35 Tbps

Accepted submission by takyon at 2018-03-02 00:05:37
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takyon [soylentnews.org] writes:

GitHub has been hit with the largest-ever DDoS attack, and it was only down for a few minutes [githubengineering.com]:

Between 17:21 and 17:30 UTC on February 28th we identified and mitigated a significant volumetric DDoS attack. The attack originated from over a thousand different autonomous systems (ASNs) across tens of thousands of unique endpoints. It was an amplification attack using the memcached-based approach described above that peaked at 1.35Tbps via 126.9 million packets per second.

Also at Wired [wired.com] and The Register [theregister.co.uk].

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