misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoCloudflare blocks largest recorded DDoS attack peaking at 3.8Tbpswww.bleepingcomputer.comexternal-linkmessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up1221arrow-down13
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minus-squaremisk@sopuli.xyzOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·18 hours agoThat’s still 2.5k fully saturated 400mbps connections. As far as I know this kind of approach wouldn’t work since you’d easily block them - you need craploads of bots all around the world for this to not be defeated by a smart firewall.
minus-squarex00za@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·54 minutes agoOften a multitude of high bandwidth servers are rented using stolen credit cards. (Source: I knew a guy that got busted by the FBI for operating one such services, he bought all the servers with stolen CCs)
That’s still 2.5k fully saturated 400mbps connections. As far as I know this kind of approach wouldn’t work since you’d easily block them - you need craploads of bots all around the world for this to not be defeated by a smart firewall.
Often a multitude of high bandwidth servers are rented using stolen credit cards.
(Source: I knew a guy that got busted by the FBI for operating one such services, he bought all the servers with stolen CCs)