{"id":268047,"date":"2018-07-12T12:16:11","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T10:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=268047"},"modified":"2018-07-12T12:17:29","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T10:17:29","slug":"new-ddos-attack-peaks-at-1-3tbps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/268047-new-ddos-attack-peaks-at-1-3tbps.html","title":{"rendered":"New DDoS attack peaks at 1.3Tbps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Akamai has released its latest State of the Internet Security report<\/strong><\/a>, which shows that the average DDoS attack size doubled in early 2018.<\/p>\n

This increase in attack traffic followed after attackers discovered and employed a new DDoS reflection and amplification method with the potential to multiply their attack resources by a factor of 500,000.<\/p>\n

The attack vector, called memcached UDP reflection<\/strong><\/a>, uses resources exposed on the Internet – with no malware or botnet required.<\/p>\n

Memcached is a tool meant to cache data and reduce strain on heavier data stores, like disk or databases, and no authentication is required.<\/p>\n

When this is added to the ability to spoof IP addresses of UDP traffic, the protocol can be abused as a reflector when exposed to the Internet.<\/p>\n

In February 2018, a memcached reflector attack set a new record for the largest attack Akamai has mitigated to date.<\/p>\n

At 1.3Tbps, the attack more than doubled the previous record of 623Gbps – achieved by Mirai in September 2016.<\/p>\n

Median DDoS attack sizes also continued to increase over the past year, now reaching 1.3Gbps.<\/p>\n

Akamai highlighted that a swift response by developers, network operators, and service providers has quickly reduced the number of vulnerable memcached servers.<\/p>\n

This quick response has limited the potential of this new attack vector in the future.<\/p>\n

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

Now read:\u00a0Cloudflare Spectrum \u2013 DDoS protection for the rest of the Internet<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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