AWS said it mitigated a 2.3 Tbps DDoS attack, the largest ever

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

https://www.zdnet.com/article/aws-said-it-mitigated-a-2-3-tbps-ddos-attack-the-largest-ever/

By Catalin Cimpanu
Zero Day
ZDNet.com
June 17, 2020

Amazon said its AWS Shield service mitigated the largest DDoS attack ever 
recorded, stopping a 2.3 Tbps attack in mid-February this year.

The incident was disclosed in the company's AWS Shield Threat Landscape [PDF], 
a report detailing web attacks mitigated by Amazon's AWS Shield protection 
service.

The report didn't identify the targeted AWS customer but said the attack was 
carried out using hijacked CLDAP web servers and caused three days of "elevated 
threat" for its AWS Shield staff.

CLDAP (Connection-less Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is an alternative 
to the older LDAP protocol and is used to connect, search, and modify 
Internet-shared directories.

[...]



--
Subscribe to InfoSec News
https://www.infosecnews.org/subscribe-to-infosec-news/
https://twitter.com/infosecnews_