Russian Internet firm Yandex has been fighting a DDoS attack all summer, which has reached a peak attack rate of 21.8 million requests per second, powered by a quarter of a million rogue routers that form the Meris botnet. According to security firm Qrator Labs which provides DDoS protection for Yandex, up to 56,000 devicesRead more
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37,000 Plex Media servers exposed to the internet are being abused in DDOS attacks according to a new security report. Plex Media Server is a personal media library and streaming platform available on Windows, Mac and Linux platforms. One of the attractions of Plex is the ability to stream your local media library to remoteRead more
Amazon Web Services has revealed that in May 2020 it deflected the largest ever recorded DDoS attack. The previous largest Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack had been against GitHub in 2018 which was measured at 1.3 Terabits (Thousand Billion bits per second) – the attack against AWS in May was almost double at 2.3Read more
