In a ddos attack on an Asian e-commerce-business peaked, the number of connections to 15,000 per second. The servers of the company were 45Gbps to rogue traffic to endure. That notifies a security company.
According to security company Prolexic is the largest ddos attack this year, reports Computerworld. It is unknown to what e-commerce-company-Prolexic, that does not mean, because it is a vertrouwensovereenkomst with the company. Also the reason for the attack is still unknown; it may be going to a competitor or a user who has the authority wants to sabotage it.
The 15,000 requests per second were carried out by a botnet of a total of 250,000 pcs, which together 45Gbps of ddos traffic piekten. The attack at the beginning of november have occurred. It is not to be the largest ddos attack ever; in previous years, ddos attacks, with a total capacity of 100Gbps or more is encountered.
Ddos attacks that are purely reliant on the traffic it is in fact rarer. There are also more advanced ddos attacks possible, that errors in the software exploit or by requests in a certain way to carry out web servers to fill without a lot of data to dissipate.
The bandwidth toughest attack, where Tweakers.net faced, peaked at 7Gbps. That was in 2002. The most recent major attack was more sophisticated and verstookte “only” 200Mbps.