TTG Wrote:Spam crusaders The Spamhaus Project have been battling massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that have reportedly resulted in a slowdown of the entire Web.
Spamhaus tracks the Internet's spam operations and sources, and maintains real-time, spam-blocking databases that help Internet networksweed out bogus email. Trouble started, however, when Spamhaus added a firm known as Cyberbunker to its blacklist, the BBC said.
Spamhaus said last week that it experienced a "large-scale DDoS attack" over the course of several days, knocking out its website and mail systems. By Friday, March 22, Spamhaus said all its systems were "green" and back online.
That was due, in part, to CloudFlare, which published a blog post that went into greater detail about the attack. "Spamhaus signed up for CloudFlare ... and we immediately mitigated the attack, making the site once again reachable," the company said.
CloudFlare, however, said it logged attacks that topped 75 Gbps, while the New York Times and the BBC said those attacks actually reached 300 Gbps. For comparison, a "normal" DDoS attack that might take down a bank website, for example, is around 50 Gbps, the Times said.
"It was sufficiently large to fully saturate [Spamhaus's] connection to the rest of the Internet and knock their site offline," CloudFlare said.

"These very large attacks, which are known as Layer 3 attacks, are difficult to stop with any on-premise solution," CloudFlare continued. "Put simply: if you have a router with a 10Gbps port, and someone sends you 11Gbps of traffic, it doesn't matter what intelligent software you have to stop the attack because your network link is completely saturated."
This makes it "one of the largest computer attacks on the Internet," the Times said; the BBC echoed that sentiment, calling it the "biggest cyber-attack in history."
As a result, some sites - like Netflix - have seen some slowdowns, the sites reported. Spamhaus is reportedly now working with various law enforcement agencies around the globe.
Spamhaus and Cyberbunker did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

(03-28-2013, 02:42 AM)Paradox Wrote: I was knocked off for a good 2-3 hours earlier.. : O

(03-28-2013, 02:48 AM)Prince Wrote: Bet that HF booter that you have now makes you feel like a twat ; )

Anyway, think of it in this prospective, 500Mbit could probably knock off the normal home connection, imagine what that 300Gbps could do.
This must have been some sweet botnet : p

(03-28-2013, 02:54 AM)ABC Wrote: It takes MUCH less to knock off internet, 200 minimum. And 300Gbps is probably enough to knock off a basic server, maybe even a medium sized server(such as the ones you see at NASA, it could probably take at least 1 down). Either way, imagine how many slaves you would need for that...

(03-28-2013, 02:54 AM)ABC Wrote: It takes MUCH less to knock off internet, 200 minimum. And 300Gbps is probably enough to knock off a basic server, maybe even a medium sized server(such as the ones you see at NASA, it could probably take at least 1 down). Either way, imagine how many slaves you would need for that...

(03-28-2013, 02:57 AM)Prince Wrote: Not necessarily, some routers have some flood protection built in if you spent a decent amount on them which would mean that it takes a little more than 200Mbps.

Also, this guys botnet must be fucking sweet man!