First ever 1Tbps DDoS attack
A DDoS attack of 990Gbps has hit French hosting provider OVH, its founder and CTO Octave Klaba revealed.
On 22 September Klaba said OVH was facing a huge DDoS attack. “You can see the simultaneous DDoS are close to 1Tbps,” he said.
He added that the botnet consisted of 145,607 Internet connected cameras, which can each send an attack of between 1Mbps and 30Mbps.
Klaba later said another 6,857 cameras joined the attack, which means that over 152,000 devices were used in this DDoS attack.
This attacks follows shortly after a 620Gbps DDoS attack took down KrebsOnSecurity after it was kicked off the Akamai network.
“Martin McKeay, Akamai’s senior security advocate, said the largest attack the company had seen previously clocked in earlier this year at 363Gbps,” said the website’s founder, Brian Krebs.
There was, however, a major difference between the KrebsOnSecurity DDoS and the previous record holder.
The 363Gpbs attack is thought to have been generated by a botnet of compromised systems using well-known techniques allowing them to “amplify” a relatively small attack into a much larger one.
“In contrast, the huge 620Gbps assault this week on my site appears to have been launched almost exclusively by a very large botnet of hacked devices,” Krebs said.
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