Chinese company hit by mega-DDoS attack
DDoS criminals are trying to batter down DDoS defences with larger attacks and new techniques, mitigation outfit Prolexic has said, only weeks after the company detected a huge assault on a Chinese company.
The attack on the unnamed organisation and its DNS provider happened between 5 and 12 November and reached 45Gbit/s at peak, equivalent to 69 million packets or 15,000 connections per second, way above the level that can be easily stemmed using standalone appliances, the company claimed.
The assault was sustained over nearly eight days in four different waves, focussing on the vulnerable application layers, a clear attempt to knock the business offline. “This attack was three times larger in packets per second volume than the biggest attack Prolexic has mitigated previously, which also occurred in 2011” said Prolexic CTO, Paul Sop.
