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KrebsOnSecurity Hit by 200 Gbps DDoS Attack

posted by Dopefish on Saturday February 15 2014, @04:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the when-the-going-gets-tough dept.

nobbis writes:

"The recent KrebsOnSecurity 200 Gbps DDoS Attack used NTP servers for amplification, a technique that is becoming increasingly common according to Symantec NTP Reflection Attacks and Arbor Networks NTP Attacks.

A similar 400Gbps attack reported by Cloudflare against one of its clients 400 Gbps Attack was intense enough to cause network congestion in Europe.

Brian Krebs believes however that some of the DDoS-for-hire services behind the recent attacks maybe using Cloudflare as a safe haven, a view repudiated by Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare.

The attack against the KrebsOnSecurity site is thought to have been a demonstration of ability from a Hackforums.net user offering a DDoS-for-hire service."

 
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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by AudioGuy on Saturday February 15 2014, @05:28PM

    by AudioGuy (24) on Saturday February 15 2014, @05:28PM (#181) Journal

    If the NSA were actually doing their JOB, instead of playing Peeping Tom, they have enough connectivity and processing power that they could probably trace back to all the zombies used for this purpose, and disable them.

    They COULD make DDOS attacks nearly impossible to sustain.

    That would require actual competence, though.

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by mrcoolbp on Saturday February 15 2014, @08:02PM

    by mrcoolbp (68) <mrcoolbp@dev.soylentnews.org> on Saturday February 15 2014, @08:02PM (#183)
    Cool idea, is that feasable though? So many dynamic ips, the volume of requests involved, the speed at which they'd have to react etc. Surely you could start making dents, but of course as you say the resources they are are currently administering could more than cover it...
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    • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Sunday February 16 2014, @02:45PM

      by janrinok (52) on Sunday February 16 2014, @02:45PM (#284) Journal

      All that would be needed is for some arrests to be made. Once it is obvious that there is a price to pay for DDoS'ing a site it might reduce the frequency at which they occur. That would require intelligence to be collected - but isn't the NSA supposed to be able to do that?

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