Technology @lemmy.world misk @sopuli.xyz 3 mo. ago

Cloudflare blocks largest recorded DDoS attack peaking at 3.8Tbps

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3.8 tablespoons is minuscule
- It depends, 3.8 tablespoons of water? Yeah thats a small amount, 3.8 tablespoons of fentynal? That's enough to kill a small town.
  
  How many tablespoons of water would it take to kill a small town?
- I wonder how many tablespoons of electrons 3.8Tb/sec over the time of the attack actually is
- Idk, a tablespoon is the largest spoon-based unit
  
  The poop spoon is bigger.
- Agree. I had that much garlic last night
Direct from the Cloudflare Blog

I find their write ups to be fascinating.
- They have me in a weird spot, because I fundamentally don't really like the sheer volume of information they are MITMing at all times, and don't really like the idea of letting them do so for my small site.
  
  But their decisions with respect to security threats pretty consistently seem well measured and as minimally invasive as they can be (eg they have intervened and rewritten content as a result of a supply chain attack, but were very transparent that it was desperate measures, that they didn't really want to do it, and only did it by default for the free users that were most likely not to know enough to enable it themselves). They've also pushed back against stuff like piracy shield trying to turn them into outright surveillance for private companies.
  
  Their business model and size obligates them to walk carefully - they want users and clients to forget or not know they even exist and have such a leverage over them - that really helps them selling their products. I think they have top of the shelf specialists, hardware, etc and that naturally upholds their frightening monopoly. Piracy shield goes against them masquarading as invisible non-actors and puts a lot of unpaid responsibility on them.
  
  They lost me when they refused to do anything about Kiwi Farms. Protecting privacy is one thing, facilitating hate crimes is another.
According to the site, home routers and dvrs were part of the devices used. Looks like manufacturers abandoning devices without updates is becoming more and more of an issue.
Interesting to see that China is ranking fairly low on the index and Vietnam so high. Really didn't expect that.
- I got tons of DDoS attacks from China & Singapore lately (including a lot of people I know around me running servers). So maybe this is true for this specific DDoS attack, but in general this chart can't be correct. A lot of DDos is happening from Tencent cloud & Alibaba cloud as well!!!
That's "just" 3800 times my home capacity. Is this really that easy to build a botnet?
- It’s terabits, not gigabits :)
  
  Symmetrical connections are not that common so pulling this much upload from infected machines seems impressive.
  
  Yeah. In developped countries you can expect at least 400Mbps thanks to fiber connections
Blocks is relative - I think they had some issues

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