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Defending the Internet: how Cloudflare blocked a monumental 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack

https://blog.cloudflare.com/defending-the-internet-how-cloudflare-blocked-a-monumental-7-3-tbps-ddos/
34•methuselah_in•2h ago

Comments

kevmo314•2h ago
This article taught be about the QOTD protocol: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc865

Cool artifact of the internet!

victorstanciu•2h ago
@tete called it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44262324
haxton•1h ago
Unrelated. Has nothing to do with the gcp outage that was related to.
esseph•22m ago
No, this is old.
lordnacho•1h ago
Possibly the only kind of advertising that I actually like. Informative, engaging, no overselling.
password4321•1h ago
← Inserting standard complaint about Cloudflare protecting the sites selling these DDoS attacks here (at best: a conflict of interest selling the cure while protecting the disease).
candiddevmike•1h ago
What does this botnet do when it's not performing a 7.3 Tbps DDoS? Yea it's probably regular folks computers, but what "wakes up" the botnet to attack? What makes an attack target worthwhile? Presumably something this large would be on someone's radar...
jamessinghal•1h ago
The Command-and-Control part of the botnet would be whatever component they build to instruct it to attack; often using some dummy website they register and have the compromised clients poll for changes with instructions.

I think an increasing amount of them are state actors or groups offering the botnet as a service.

esseph•22m ago
also add in DNS fastflux

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa...

https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/dns/dns-fast-flux/

sparrish•18m ago
Anybody know who the "Cloudflare customer, a hosting provider" was and what IP they were targeting and why? I'm curious why someone would go to such great lengths to try to take down a service.

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