World’s largest DDoS attack tops 1Tbps

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By Matthew Griffin Security and Privacy 30th September 2016

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF

Botnets are exploiting security vulnerabilities in the Internet of Everything devices to launch the world’s largest DDoS attacks

Hot on the heels of the news that someone might be trying to take down the entire internet, earlier this week hosting provider OVH was overwhelmed by what is thought to be the world’s largest ever DDoS attack – a 1Tbps attack launched by a botnet comprised of at least 150,000 internet of Everything (IOE) devices and once confirmed it will beat the next largest DDoS attack by a factor of three.

OVH founder and CTO Octave Klaba reported the 1Tbps DDoS attack on Twitter sharing an image that lists the multiple sources of the attack.

The company was targeted by various types of traffic, including Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) traffic, a novelty in the DDoS landscape. But unfortunately, such kind of DDoS attacks are likely to become even more frequent because it is too easy for hackers gain control of poorly configured, or vulnerable, IoE devices.

Last week experts observed another massive DDoS that targeted the website of the popular cyber security expert Brian Krebs which was subjected to a 665Gbps DDoS attack and both are by far the largest attacks we’ve seen so far.

Expect more to come.

Matthew Griffin / About Author

Matthew Griffin, described as a "Walking encyclopaedia of the future" by NASA and a futurist polymath, is one of the world's most renowned futurists and strategic foresight experts. A serial entrepreneur Matthew is the Founder and Futurist in Chief of the 311 Institute, a global Futures and Deep Futures advisory firm working across the next 50 years, XPotential University, the world's first free futures and foresight university, and the World Futures Forum which works with the United Nations to solve the worlds greatest challenges. 13 times author of the Codex of the Future series, Matthew is an in demand international keynote, acclaimed university lecturer, and host of the hit Fanatical Futurist podcast.

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