Krebs OnSecurity Hit With Near-Record 6.3 Tbps DDoS
Summary: KrebsOnSecurity was hit on May 12 by a DDoS attack exceeding 6.3 terabits per second that lasted roughly 45 seconds, hurling large UDP packets at random ports at about 585 million packets per second. Google Security Engineer Damian Menscher said it was the largest attack Google has handled and second in size only to a 6.5 Tbps attack Cloudflare mitigated in April, with both bearing the fingerprints of the Aisuru IoT botnet.
What's compelling: Menscher's assessment that this size of attack would kill most companies means a botnet rented out at $150 per day to $600 per week, built from hacked routers and DVRs, now exceeds the mitigation capacity of nearly every destination on the Internet.
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