Russian hackers implicated in major DDoS attack
A major cyberattack against a European spam tracking company this past week appears to have originated from a gang of Russian hackers, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
Spamhaus, a Geneva-based spam tracking firm, had been the target of a massive distributed-denial-of-service attack, where at one point traffic flowing to the site reached levels of 300 Gbps.
Gbps, or Gigabits-per-second, is a rate at which data flows — a bit being the basic unit of information, and a Gbps 1,000,000,000 bits per second. Those levels during the Spamhaus attack are three times the largest DDoS attack seen yet, according to ComputerWorld.
