DDoS Attack

DDoS Attack 

To date one of the biggest — if not the most significant — distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks happened in 2018 against the popular online code management system GitHub. GitHub was hit by an onslaught of traffic, which at its peak came in at a rate of 1.3 terabytes per second, sending packets at a rate of 126.9 million per second. The attack wasn’t just massive, it was record-breaking. In this attack, the botmasters flooded Memcached servers with spoofed requests, which gave them the ability to amplify their attack by 50,000x. The good news? GitHub wasn’t caught entirely unprepared. Administrators were alerted to the attack and it was shut down within 20 minutes.

What you need to know: A DDoS attack is an attempt by hackers, hacktivists or cyber spies to take down websites, slow down and crash the target servers and make online service unavailable by flooding them with traffic from multiple sources. As their name suggests, DDoS attacks are widely distributed brute-force attempts to wreak havoc and cause destruction. These attacks often tend to target popular or high-profile sites, such as banks, news, and government websites, to thwart or deter target organizations from publishing important information or to weaken them financially.

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