A diagram from Prolexic illustrates how a DDoS attack works
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- DDoS mitigation provider Prolexic Technologies (http://www.prolexic.com/) warned organizations in Asia, Europe and North America to be cautious as the magnitude of DDoS threats is likely to escalate over the next six to eight months.
On Wednesday the company announced that it had mitigated a major DDoS attack of "unprecedented size in terms of packet-per-second volume," viewing this as an early warning of DDoS escalation.
According to the press release, the attack was directed against an unnamed Asian ecommerce company. Prolexic says the attack generated larger than normal TCP SYN Floods and ICMP Floods.
Paul Sop, chief technology officer at Prolexic, said the volume reached levels of approximately 25 million packets per second. In comparison, he said, most high-end border routes can forward 70,000 packets per second in usual deployments.
Typically only 5,000 to 10,000 bots have been employed in the five previous attacks mitigated by Prolexic, but the company claims this attacker's botnet had 176,000 remotely controlled bots.
“The customer attempted to mitigate these repeated DDoS attacks for many months with solutions from its ISP and its carrier before approaching Prolexic,” Sop said in a statement. “Defeating this attack is a testament to our unrivaled capacity and our unique position as the only global DDoS mitigation provider with the experience and bandwidth to successfully fight these gigantic attacks.”
Prolexic said that in order to eliminate the burden on a single carrier, it distributed traffic among several of its global Tier 1 carrier partners and network centers.
According to the press release, the client was able to maintain service availability throughout the attack.
“Prolexic sees this massive attack in Asia with millions of packets per second as an early warning beacon of the increasing magnitude of DDoS attacks that may be on the horizon for Europe and North America in the next six to eight months,” Sop stated. “High risk clients, such as those extremely large companies in the gaming and gambling industries in Asia, are usually the first targets of these huge botnets just to see how successful they can be.”
Sop said that the increasing magnitude of DDoS attacks are "especially insidious" because they cause damage to carriers before the bad traffic reaches its intended target.
Prolexic said it has only seen this botnet "once in the Western Hemisphere to date."
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On Wednesday the company announced that it had mitigated a major DDoS attack of "unprecedented size in terms of packet-per-second volume," viewing this as an early warning of DDoS escalation.
According to the press release, the attack was directed against an unnamed Asian ecommerce company. Prolexic says the attack generated larger than normal TCP SYN Floods and ICMP Floods.
Paul Sop, chief technology officer at Prolexic, said the volume reached levels of approximately 25 million packets per second. In comparison, he said, most high-end border routes can forward 70,000 packets per second in usual deployments.
Typically only 5,000 to 10,000 bots have been employed in the five previous attacks mitigated by Prolexic, but the company claims this attacker's botnet had 176,000 remotely controlled bots.
“The customer attempted to mitigate these repeated DDoS attacks for many months with solutions from its ISP and its carrier before approaching Prolexic,” Sop said in a statement. “Defeating this attack is a testament to our unrivaled capacity and our unique position as the only global DDoS mitigation provider with the experience and bandwidth to successfully fight these gigantic attacks.”
Prolexic said that in order to eliminate the burden on a single carrier, it distributed traffic among several of its global Tier 1 carrier partners and network centers.
According to the press release, the client was able to maintain service availability throughout the attack.
“Prolexic sees this massive attack in Asia with millions of packets per second as an early warning beacon of the increasing magnitude of DDoS attacks that may be on the horizon for Europe and North America in the next six to eight months,” Sop stated. “High risk clients, such as those extremely large companies in the gaming and gambling industries in Asia, are usually the first targets of these huge botnets just to see how successful they can be.”
Sop said that the increasing magnitude of DDoS attacks are "especially insidious" because they cause damage to carriers before the bad traffic reaches its intended target.
Prolexic said it has only seen this botnet "once in the Western Hemisphere to date."
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