US EditionKrebsOnSecurity Hit With Near-Record 6.3 Tbps DDoS
- KrebsOnSecurity experienced a DDoS attack exceeding 6.3 terabits per second last week, lasting about 45 seconds and hitting online servers.
- The attack appears to be a test run by the Aisuru IoT botnet, a recently surfaced threat linked to a DDoS-for-hire service operated by a Brazilian named Forky.
- The attack unleashed roughly 585 million large UDP packets per second against random ports, making it about ten times larger than the 2016 Mirai botnet attack.
- Google Security Engineer Damian Menscher confirmed this as the largest attack Google has mitigated and said similar recent attacks were likely tests of the same botnet.
- Although the attack caused no visible disruption due to its brevity, it demonstrates the destructive power of large IoT botnets despite multiple law enforcement domain seizures.
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KrebsOnSecurity Hit With Near-Record 6.3 Tbps DDoS
KrebsOnSecurity last week was hit by a near record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that clocked in at more than 6.3 terabits of data per second (a terabit is one trillion bits of data). The brief attack appears to have been a test run for a massive new Internet of Things (IoT) botnet capable of launching crippling digital assaults that few web destinations can withstand. Read on for more about the botnet, the attack, and the apparent…
A new botnet is preparing to take on Mirai's legacy – only a lot stronger. A security expert has been attacked with 6.3 terabit per second.
KrebsOnSecurity Survives Historic 6.3 Tbps DDoS Attack: A Test of Fury by the Aisuru
In a significant escalation of cyber threats targeting security researchers, the widely respected cybersecurity news site KrebsOnSecurity experienced one of the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks ever documented last week. The attack, which peaked at a staggering 6.3 terabits of data per second, represents a ten-fold increase over the infamous 2016 Mirai botnet attack that previously forced the site offline for nearly four days…
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Krebs on Security: KrebsOnSecurity Hit With Near-Record 6.3 Tbps DDoS. “KrebsOnSecurity last week was hit by a near record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that clocked in at more than 6.3 terabits of data per second (a terabit is one trillion bits of data). The brief attack appears to have been a test run for a massive new Internet of Things (IoT) botnet capable of launching crippling digital assaults that few web destinations can wi…
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