Spamhaus DDoS grows to Internet-threatening size
Found on Ars Technica on Wednesday, 27 March 2013
The attacks have grown to more than 300 Gb/s of flood traffic: a scale that's threatening to clog up the Internet's core infrastructure and make access to the rest of the Internet slow or impossible.
CyberBunker argues that it is currently engaged in a blackmail war with Spamhaus. As Internet wars go, this one is using the nuclear option, and everyone is at risk of being caught in the blast.
Spamhaus seems to have poked the wrong (or right?) person with that blacklist entry. CyberBunker has practially admitted that they are behind the attack, so it should be easy to get their upstream providers to pull the plug. A bunker with 10 years worth of fuel and food is nice and all, but without a network connection the business idea falls apart.