MICROSOFT FENDS OFF 3.47TBPS DDOS ATTACK

DDoS attacks are getting bigger and bigger by the month.

Microsoft recently countered a record-breaking 3.47Tbps DDoS attack on its Azure servers in Asia according to a blog post by the company. That, it says, is the largest mitigated attack in history. According to Azure Networking product manager Alethea Toh, the attack occurred sometime in November, targeting an Azure customer in Asia. He believes this was the largest attack to ever be reported in history. The attack originated from roughly 10,000 sources across the world, using a combination of multiple attack methods for UDP reflection on port 80 including, SSDP, CLDAP, DNS, and NTP. The attack lasted around 15 minutes. In December Microsoft also had to deal with another attack that was nearly as large at 3.25Tbps, but lasted far longer.…

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