DDoS Attacks Heading Toward 1-Terabit Record
Found on eWEEK on Sunday, 25 September 2016
On Sept. 20, Krebs tweeted that his site was hit with a DDoS attack of 665G bps. A day later, on Sept. 21, Octave Klaba, founder of OVH tweeted that his network was affected on Sept. 20 by simultaneous DDoS attacks approaching 1T bps. The peak attacks came in at 191G bps and 799G bps.
Akamai decided on Sept. 22 to drop support for Krebs, who had been a pro bono customer on the platform. An Akamai spokesperson said that decision to drop support for Krebs wasn't made lightly, but the costs and impact of defending against the large DDoS were non-trivial.
That should be pretty obvious. Connections are getting faster, available bandwidth increases and more and more (IoT) devices are going online. It's just a natural development. It would be way more newsworthy if the attacks stay the same.