{"id":168065,"date":"2016-06-18T09:30:26","date_gmt":"2016-06-18T07:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=168065"},"modified":"2016-06-18T09:48:42","modified_gmt":"2016-06-18T07:48:42","slug":"biggest-ddos-attack-in-q1-2016-was-289gbps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/168065-biggest-ddos-attack-in-q1-2016-was-289gbps.html","title":{"rendered":"Biggest DDoS attack in Q1 2016 was 289Gbps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Akamai has released its Q1 2016 State of the Internet Security Report, which shows an\u00a0annual\u00a0increase of 125% in DDoS attacks.<\/p>\n

There was a rise in the use of stresser\/booter-based botnets by attackers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese tools rely on the use of reflection attacks, bouncing traffic off servers running vulnerable services,\u201d said Akamai.<\/p>\n

In Q1 2016, a record 19 attacks exceeded 100Gbps, with the largest attacks hitting the software and technology, gaming, and media and entertainment sectors.<\/p>\n

The largest DDoS attack measured 289Gbps, a slight\u00a0drop compared to\u00a0the largest attack in the previous quarter – 309Gbps.<\/p>\n

Aside from the largest attack, most of the mega-attacks seemed to use tools common to booters\/stressers.<\/p>\n

Six DDoS attacks in Q1 exceeded 30 million packets per second (Mpps), and two attacks peaked at more than 50Mpps.<\/p>\n

The packet rate can affect a number of\u00a0routers and networks more profoundly than the number of bytes per packet, as even small packets consume memory – tying up resources.<\/p>\n

This resource consumption can result in packet loss within the routers and potentially cause collateral damage.<\/p>\n

The infographic below provides an overview of online attacks in Q1 2016.<\/p>\n

\"DDoS<\/a><\/p>\n

More on DDoS attacks<\/h3>\n

Google\u2019s Project Shield: protecting news sites against DDoS attacks<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Massive increase in DDoS attacks<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Akamai XOR DDoS warning<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There has been a 125% increase in DDoS attacks since last year, and a 138% increase in the number of attacks over 100Gbps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":84795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[3340,2242,35],"class_list":["post-168065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-akamai","tag-ddos","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168065"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168169,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168065\/revisions\/168169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}