DDoS defender targeted in 1.5 Bpps denial-of-service attack
A huge distributed denial-of-service attack that reached 1.5 billion packets per second was directed at a DDoS mitigation service provider in Europe.
FastNetMon, a business that provides protection against service disruptions, mitigated the attack, which came from hundreds of IoTs and MikroTik routers.
According to a press release from FastNetMon, the attack reached 1.5 billion packets per second (1.5 Gpps), making it one of the biggest packet-rate floods ever made public.
According to the business, the majority of the malicious traffic was a UDP flood that was sent over more than 11,000 distinct networks globally by infected customer-premises equipment (CPE), such as routers and Internet of Things devices.
The targeted client was described by FastNetMon as a DDoS scrubbing se...