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Re: Krebs on Security booted off Akamai network after DDoS attack proves pricey
From: Sven-Haegar Koch <haegar () sdinet de>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 21:15:26 +0200 (CEST)
On Fri, 23 Sep 2016, Mike wrote:
On 09/23/2016 11:30 AM, Seth Mattinen wrote:On 9/23/16 10:58, Grant Ridder wrote:Didn't realize Akamai kicked out or disabled customers http://www.zdnet.com/article/krebs-on-security-booted-off-akamai-network-after-ddos-attack-proves-pricey/ "Security blog Krebs on Security has been taken offline by host Akamai Technologies following a DDoS attack which reached 665 Gbps in size."So ultimately the DDoS was successful, just in a different way. ~SethMore technical information about the characteristics of these attacks would be very interesting such as the ultimate sources of the attack traffic (compromised home pc's?), the nature of the traffic (dns / ssdp amplification?), whether it was spoofed source (BCP38-adverse), and whether the recent takedown the vDOS was really complete or if it's likely someone else gained control of the C&C servers that controlled it's assets?
At least for the OVH case there is a bit of info: https://twitter.com/olesovhcom/status/779297257199964160 "This botnet with 145607 cameras/dvr (1-30Mbps per IP) is able to send
1.5Tbps DDoS. Type: tcp/ack, tcp/ack+psh, tcp/syn."
c'ya sven-haegar -- Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. - Ben F.
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- Re: Krebs on Security booted off Akamai network after DDoS attack proves pricey Filip Hruska (Sep 23)
- Re: Krebs on Security booted off Akamai network after DDoS attack proves pricey Alex Wacker (Sep 23)
- Re: Krebs on Security booted off Akamai network after DDoS attack proves pricey Mel Beckman (Sep 23)
- Re: Krebs on Security booted off Akamai network after DDoS attack proves pricey Simon Lockhart (Sep 23)
- RE: Krebs on Security booted off Akamai network after DDoS attack proves pricey Justin Krejci (Sep 23)
- Re: Krebs on Security booted off Akamai network after DDoS attack proves pricey Patrick W. Gilmore (Sep 23)
- Re: Krebs on Security booted off Akamai network after DDoS attack proves pricey Rubens Kuhl (Sep 23)
- Re: Krebs on Security booted off Akamai network after DDoS attack proves pricey DaKnOb (Sep 23)
- Re: Krebs on Security booted off Akamai network after DDoS attack proves pricey Seth Mattinen (Sep 23)
- Re: Krebs on Security booted off Akamai network after DDoS attack proves pricey Mike (Sep 23)
- Re: Krebs on Security booted off Akamai network after DDoS attack proves pricey Sven-Haegar Koch (Sep 23)
- Re: Krebs on Security booted off Akamai network after DDoS attack proves pricey Hugo Slabbert (Sep 23)
- Re: Krebs on Security booted off Akamai network after DDoS attack proves pricey Jared Mauch (Sep 23)
- Re: Krebs on Security booted off Akamai network after DDoS attack proves pricey Hugo Slabbert (Sep 23)
- Re: Krebs on Security booted off Akamai network after DDoS attack proves pricey Mel Beckman (Sep 23)
- Re: Krebs on Security booted off Akamai network after DDoS attack proves pricey Jared Mauch (Sep 23)
- Re: Krebs on Security booted off Akamai network after DDoS attack proves pricey Mike (Sep 23)
- Re: Krebs on Security booted off Akamai network after DDoS attack proves pricey jim deleskie (Sep 25)