A large -scale DDOS attack set by a new "plague" botnet, the power is more than three times that of MIRAI (page 1/2)

　From August to September, the largest cyber attacks in the world occurred one after another.Above all, a DDOS attack that sent a large amount of traffic to the target and became unable to service was set up by 250,000 routers manipulated by the new botnet "MERIS".Its power was more than three times that of the IoT malware "MIRAI", which was rampant five years ago.

　CDN giant CloudFlare has announced on August 19 that it has prevented the largest DDOS attack ever.The fraudulent request sent to the company's customer financial institutions reached 17.2 million per second, almost tripled of the largest DDOS attack.Attack traffic had occurred from more than 20,000 devices from 125 countries around the world, operated by BOT.

　CloudFlare said it was able to automatically detect the attack and stop it, but a few weeks ago, the same botnet attack was set up to other customers.

　Next, on September 5, Russian IT major YANDEX was targeted.According to QRATOR LABS, a DDOS countermeasure company that supports the response, the fraudulent request sent to YANDEX is estimated to be 21.8 million per second.

　On the 9th of the same month, the security journalist Brian Clebuz's website "Krebsonsecurity" was temporarily difficult to connect with a large DDOS attack.In 2016, the site was damaged for four days with a large DDOS attack by MIRAI, but the fraudulent request sent at that time was about 450,000 per second, whereas this attack was four times.It is reported that it accompanies over 2 million requests per second.

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