A distributed denial-of-service attack targeting a DDoS mitigation vendor somewhere in Western Europe has been spotted and mitigated by FastNetMon.
The firm says the attack peaked at a massive 1.5 billion packets per second, making it one of the largest packet-rate floods confirmed to date. FastNetMon says that the traffic was mainly a UDP flood sourced from compromised customer-premises equipment, including IoT devices and MikroTik routers.
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Source: TechRadar News
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