By SecurityWeek News on June 30, 2016 A 470 gigabits per second (Gbps) distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack launched earlier this month leveraged nine different payload (packet) types, security company Imperva Incapsula says.
The attack occurred on June 14 and targeted a Chinese gambling company and was the largest Imperva has mitigated to date, the security firm says. While Imperva said the attack didn’t have the "craftiness" of other DDoS threats seen, they explained that it was preceded by several other large-scale assaults that occurred daily in the week leading up to the massive DDoS attack.
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Massive Nine-Vector DDoS Attack Tops 470 Gbps
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Woah, that attack sounds totally over the top...real brute force. :(
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