The French hosting provider OVH revealed this week that may have been the largest DDoS attack in history. The company's network was crippled after a stream of hits to your system that went beyond the volume of 1 Terabit per second of traffic.
denial of service attacks distribution (DDoS, its acronym in English) happen when many terminals try to connect to the same server at once, overloading them. According to Octave Klaba, president of OVH, the bombing of access would have been done by a botnet made up of over 150,000 devices connected to the Internet.
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The network terminals "zombies" used for the DDoS attack, according Klaba mainly included security cameras and webcams. The attacks were conducted throughout the past week, with other peaks 800 Gbps and 900 Gbps. Added all access peaks, it is likely that the attack traffic generated up to 1.5 Tbps.
"Within a year or two, such attacks will become common," said security expert Martin McKeay, Akamai, in an interview with Ars Technica. "Now that people know that these things [of over 1 Tbps attacks] are possible, they will start to push in this direction. Go make it happen."
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