{"id":180880,"date":"2016-09-28T07:09:55","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T05:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=180880"},"modified":"2016-09-28T11:24:21","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T09:24:21","slug":"first-ever-1tbps-ddos-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/180880-first-ever-1tbps-ddos-attack.html","title":{"rendered":"First ever 1Tbps DDoS attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

A DDoS attack<\/strong><\/a> of 990Gbps has hit French hosting provider OVH, its founder and CTO Octave Klaba revealed.<\/p>\n

On 22 September Klaba said<\/strong><\/a> OVH was facing a huge DDoS attack. \u201cYou can see the simultaneous DDoS are close to 1Tbps,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He added that the botnet consisted of 145,607 Internet connected cameras, which can each send an attack of between 1Mbps and 30Mbps.<\/p>\n

Klaba later said another 6,857 cameras joined the attack, which means that over 152,000 devices were used in this DDoS attack.<\/p>\n

This attacks follows shortly after a 620Gbps DDoS attack<\/strong><\/a> took down KrebsOnSecurity after it was kicked off the Akamai network.<\/p>\n

\u201cMartin McKeay, Akamai\u2019s senior security advocate, said the largest attack the company had seen previously clocked in earlier this year at 363Gbps,\u201d said the website\u2019s founder, Brian Krebs.<\/p>\n

There was, however, a major difference between the KrebsOnSecurity DDoS and the previous record holder.<\/p>\n

The 363Gpbs attack is thought to have been generated by a botnet of compromised systems using well-known techniques allowing them to \u201camplify\u201d a relatively small attack into a much larger one.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn 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,\u201d Krebs said.<\/p>\n

More on DDoS attacks<\/h3>\n

Biggest DDoS attack in Q1 2016 was 289Gbps<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Google\u2019s Project Shield: protecting news sites against DDoS attacks<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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