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> hit by a truly huge attack that averaged 200-400 Gbps I take it he's talking about that[1] DDoS attack? So whoever it was launched the biggest attack in hist

• omh 13y ago
  Note that the resources required to launch that attack were relatively small. From the cloudflare article: it is possible that the attacker used only a single server running on a network that allowed source IP address spoofing So perhaps one technically adept attacker, which isn't quite so surprising.
  • Wheen 13y ago
    >Technically adept attacker It was a 15 year old kid http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/02/the-new-normal-200-400-gbps-ddos-attacks/ http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/02/the-new-normal-200-400-gb...
    • culturestate 13y ago
      That the attacker was 15 doesn't preclude them from being technically adept.
• sp332 13y ago
  No, it's a different attack. The one on Krebs' site was about 200 gbps and lasted 10 minutes, it was done by some kid who wanted to impress a gang or something. The 400 gbps one was against an unnamed site and lasted a couple of days.