The New Normal: 200-400 Gbps DDoS Attacks
Summary: KrebsOnSecurity was hit by a nearly 200 Gbps denial-of-service attack this week, which Prolexic said lasted about 10 minutes and used NTP amplification through the monlist command on older NTP servers. Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince separately blogged about a nearly 400 Gbps NTP amplification attack on one of his customers, generated by 4,529 NTP servers across 1,298 networks, which caused network congestion in parts of Europe.
What's compelling: Prince said an attacker with a 1 Gbps connection can theoretically generate more than 200 Gbps of DDoS traffic, and Cloudflare reports an attack of over 100 Gbps almost every hour of every day.
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