Largest DDoS attack so far this year peaked at 45Gbps, says company

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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9222156/Largest_DDoS_attack_so_far_this_year_peaked_at_45Gbps_says_company

By Lucian Constantin
IDG News Service
November 24, 2011

A week-long DDoS attack that launched a flood of traffic at an Asian 
e-commerce company in early November was the biggest such incident so 
far this year, according to Prolexic, a company that defends websites 
against such attacks.

The distributed denial-of-service attack consisted of four consecutive 
waves launched from multiple botnets between Nov. 5 and Nov. 12, 2011, 
Prolexic said.

It estimated that up to 250,000 computers infected with malware 
participated in the attack, many of them in China.

At the height of the attack, those computers made 15,000 connections per 
second to the target company's e-commerce platform, swamping it with up 
to 45Gbps of traffic, Prolexic said. It declined to name the company, 
one of its clients, citing a confidentiality agreement.

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