World's largest DDoS attack reached 400Gbps, says Arbor Networks

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http://www.techworld.com/news/security/worlds-largest-ddos-attack-reached-400gbps-says-arbor-networks-3595715/

By John E Dunn
Techworld
Jan 27, 2015

Some time in December 2014 an unnamed ISP experienced an NTP reflection 
DDoS attack that peaked at a router-straining 400Gbps, easily the largest 
denial of service event in Internet history, Arbor Networks' 10th Annual 
Infrastructure Report has revealed.

It’s an apparently small detail slipped into the firm’s larger narrative 
which is probably less important in the grand scheme of things than the 
fact that super-massive DDoS attacks are now common enough to have turned 
into dull statistics.

Message - large DDoS attacks are here to stay. But what is driving this 
ballooning traffic?

Arbor gets its numbers from Peakflow SP sensors in 330 customers’ premises 
feeding into the firm’s Atlas system, which it backs up with manual 
surveys of important ISPs and providers not contributing to this system.

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