Microsoft Mitigates Record 15.72 Tbps DDoS Attack Driven by AISURU Botnet
A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) assault that targeted a single endpoint in Australia and measured 15.72 terabits per second (Tbps) and nearly 3.64 billion packets per second (pps) was automatically discovered and neutralized by Microsoft on Monday.
The IT company claimed that it was the biggest DDoS attack ever seen in the cloud and that AISURU, an Internet of Things (IoT) botnet of the TurboMirai class, was the source. Who was the aim of the attack is presently unknown.
According to Microsoft's Sean Whalen, the assault featured exceptionally high-rate UDP floods that were generated from more than 500,000 source IPs in different countries and targeted a specific public IP address.
Because these abrupt UDP bursts used random source ports and had little source spoofing, prov...
