IoT Botnet Uses HTTP Traffic to DDoS Targets
The IoT botnet behind the some of the largest publicly recorded DDoS attacks is flooding its targets with HTTP traffic in Layer 7 attacks. Continue reading IoT Botnet Uses HTTP Traffic to DDoS Targets
Category Archives: DNS amplification attack
KrebsOnSecurity Hit With Record DDoS
On Tuesday evening, KrebsOnSecurity.com was the target of an extremely large and unusual distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack designed to knock the site offline. The attack did not succeed thanks to the hard work of the engineers at Akamai, the company that protects my site from such digital sieges. But according to Akamai, it was nearly double the size of the largest attack they’ve seen previously, and was among the biggest assaults the Internet has ever witnessed. Continue reading KrebsOnSecurity Hit With Record DDoS
Major DNS provider hit by mysterious, focused DDoS attack
Attack on NS1 sends 50 million to 60 million lookup packets per second. Continue reading Major DNS provider hit by mysterious, focused DDoS attack