The Army Of Things

By now, you’re probably well aware of the fate recently befallen on the Brian Krebs site KrebsOnSecurity.com. A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack in excess of 620/Gbps caused such a strain on one of the world's largest DDoS protection services, that Krebs asked that his site fundamentally be black-holed until the storm passed.

What you may not have heard of is yet another attack a few days later on OVH hosting, which demonstrated a similar type of attack that reached almost 1/Tbps - almost a 50% increase over that which took the Krebs site offline. OVH also reported that over 145,000 devices were involved in the attack....

The full article can be found in the CISO Journal on SecurityCurrent by following the link below:

https://www.securitycurrent.com/en/ciso_journal/ac_ciso_journal/the-army-of-things