Largest-Ever DDoS Campaign Demonstrates Danger of New Attack Method

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.eweek.com/security/largest-ever-ddos-campaign-demonstrates-danger-of-new-attack-method/

By Robert Lemos
eWEEK.com
2013-03-27

A Distributed Denial of Service attack on Internet blacklist maintainer 
Spamhaus has topped 300 Gbps, powered by “open recursive resolvers,” which 
allow attackers to turn modest attacks into overwhelming floods of traffic.

A Distributed Denial of Service attack on Internet blacklist maintainer 
Spamhaus has topped 300 Gbps, powered by “open recursive resolvers,” which 
allow attackers to turn modest attacks into overwhelming floods of traffic.

A distributed denial-of-service attack using a technique known as DNS 
reflection has resulted in what many security experts are calling the largest 
DDoS attack to date, which generated traffic volumes of 300Gbps, or about three 
times larger than any known previous attacks.

The series of attacks, which have taken place since the third week of March, 
hit the anti-spam organization Spamhaus, whose blacklists are used by many 
companies to block traffic from questionable servers. Spamhaus’ services have 
angered spam distributors and their hosting providers and the attack is just 
the latest effort to protest and thwart Spamhaus’ work.

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