Average DDoS Attack Bandwidth Jumps Eight-Fold In One Quarter 28
judgecorp writes "Distributed denial of service attacks have increased their bandwidth by 700 percent in the last quarter, according to DDoS specialist Prolexic. the average bandwidth has gone up from 5/9Gbps to 48.25Gbps — and the number of packets-per-second is also up. However, claims of a 300Gbps attack on Spamhaus are almost certainly false."
ima charging my (Score:3)
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Comment removed (Score:5, Interesting)
So that's what ???? is a placeholder for (Score:2)
2) Sign up customers, but not enough
3) Report that DDoS is out of control
4) Profit!
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Apparently, bold tags stack two high. Learn something new everyday. :)
Who is a good source (Score:1)
So who would you consider a good source of DDOS information then?
I'd expect a statement that the # of DDOS attempts is going up would be targeted at increasing business, not so much that the bandwidth is increasing.
Regardless of whether you're being DDOS's at 9GBPS or 50GBPS, either one isn't going to be pleasant for many companies out there. However, it may matter to DDOS providers as I'd imagine there's an upper-limit to what even they can filter.
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I do not see any other orgs, e.g. Tier1 providers or internet exchanges, providing any relevant and coherent data (maybe I am missing some interesting stuff). Maybe these guys have a stroke of luck/DDoSses (which they can market as well). It does not make the data invalid (hard to validate; yes). They have a reputation to keep up (must be pretty clean).
Now that I think of it: Tier1 family is awfull quiet about DDoS. Good for their business.
Bandwidth starting level (Score:1)
More on that false claim.... (Score:4, Informative)
Bandwidth AND packets increased (Score:2, Interesting)
Now that's a doozie. Who would ever guess that more bits per second would mean more packets per second? THE STUPID IS BURNING! HELP ME!
Re:Bandwidth AND packets increased (Score:4, Informative)
5/9Gbps = 0.56Gbps (Score:4, Informative)
Gah! 5.9, not 5/9. You made me RTFA to figure out WTF.
Prolexic smells fishy (Score:3)
I had a few phonecalls with Prolexic back in late '11. The talks didn't get too far. Sounds like a sweatshop with very high churn. Something, I don't know what, gave me the impression that it's a struggling concern.
What are the odds that this article was a slashvertisement?
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it's also missing the link to the dice version of the summary
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Then their headhunter needs to communicate better.
bitcoin exchange and miners (Score:1)
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It seems the strategy is as follows : DDoS the exchanges to drop the value, buy btc, then DDoS the mining pools to raise the value, sell btc. Slush's pool has been under attack for two days now. The value is also going up again since today.
As has btcguild, and others have told me other pools as well.
This is just my opinion, but I think that worked once, and now it is just undermining the value, stability, and legitimacy of bitcoin. I'm not saying it is (or that it is even likely,) but I wouldn't be surprised if it were eventually found that the current DDoS'ing is state sponsored due to all the attention it was suddenly getting.