@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 7 months agoCloudflare blocks largest recorded DDoS attack peaking at 3.8Tbpswww.bleepingcomputer.commessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up1231
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minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilinkEnglish6•7 months 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•7 months 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)