Gaming company Blizzard was also hit by a sizable DDoS attack around the same time, the third attack in one week. A French hosting company OVH claimed it had been hit by an even greater attack, at more than 1100Gbps. The intriguing, and alarming, aspect of the attack is that it was apparently launched from a botnet consisting of tens of thousands of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, including unsecure routers, digital video recorders (DVRs) and connected IP cameras. The security company protecting his site could no longer justify supporting his site, it was damaging them financially, and has to take it offline. Typical DDOS attacks have to date been in the range of 300 to 400 gigabits per second marking out the attack on Krebs as highly unusual. The DDoS attack consisted of somewhere between 600 gigabits and 700Gbps of traffic each second swamping and overloading the company that hosted his site. He also received pointed threats via flowers shaped as a cross, usually seen at funerals.īut recently he has become the victim of what many are calling a record-breaking distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that led to his website being taken offline. He was the victim of a swatting attack which led to a heavily armed SWAT team surrounding his home. It’s the shape of things to come.īrian Krebs, a well-known investigative reporter who often focuses his work on cyber crooks is no stranger to hacker threats. Some of the largest ever distributed denial of service attacks have just been discovered – launched from botnets consisting of compromised Internet of Things devices such as cameras and digital video recorders.
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