It’s happening now, while writing these words, and it’s affecting most of the world’s internet infrastructure by a 300 GB/S (gigabits per second) (DDoS) attacks which reefers to “Distributed Denial of Service”, it’s one of the most famous tactics to attack websites and servers to prevent users from access information or services.
DDoS hits the server with flooding packages to get it out of service “consider the internet as a highway and DDos attacks as jammed traffic block the roads”, notice that the biggest DDos attack in 2010 was 100gb/s, and 50 gb/s could take down a bank system! (Click here to know about How DDoS Protection Works)
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The Biggest Cyber Attack story continued:
The story started when Spamhaus (a non-profit organization which fights spammers by filtering and managing lists) blocked servers hosted by Cyberbunker (a Dutch company, that according to its website, hosts “services to any Web site ‘except child porn and anything related to terrorism).
Spamhaus alleged that Cyberbunker, in cooperation with “criminal gangs” from Eastern Europe and Russia.
Sven Olaf Kamphuis, an Internet activist who said he was a spokesman for Cyberbunker, said in an online message:
“We are aware that this is one of the largest DDoS attacks the world had publicly seen, Cyberbunker was retaliating against Spamhaus for abusing their influence.”SPAMHAUS LogoCyberBunker Logo
The Register wrote that the largest source of attack traffic against Spamhaus came from DNS reflection, launched through Open DNS resolvers rather than directly via compromised networks. Spamhaus turned to CloudFlare for help and the content delivery firm was able to mitigate attacks that reached a peak of 75Gbps, as explained in a blog post here.
BBC reported that 5 national cyber-police-forces are investigating the attacks, Steve Linford, chief executive for Spamhaus, told the BBC that several companies, such as Google, had made their resources available to help “absorb all of this traffic”.
The attacks typically happened in intermittent bursts of high activity.
“They are targeting every part of the internet infrastructure that they feel can be brought down”.
So, we are in the middle of a cyber war! affects some internet websites and services..on the other hand, we are in Egypt and some other countries facing another issue as Seacom Suffers Internet Outage Off African Coast as multiple subsea cable cuts have been confirmed, so we can not judge which factor is slowing down the internet! Now you should decide, which side will you take?
