Their mysterious attacks and the largest Edwards attacks of all time.
No, the fencing, which is February 20 20 attack reported by the press, so the press reported a massive
deduces attack in February of two thousand twenty at its peak, this attack.
So incoming traffic at a rate of two point three terabytes per second, which is very huge, actually.
And it didn't disclose which customer was targeted by the attack.
So the attackers responsible use hijacked connection, less lightweight directory access protocol,
the sea and that Web servers and the Seattle DEP is a protocol for user directories.
It is an alternative to and that an older version of the protocol.
Chandab has been used in a multiple deadly attacks in recent years.
Now we have that February of two thousand eighteen, the GitHub did all set that and here is one of
the largest verifiability, US attacks on record targeted GitHub, Abeokuta online code management service
used by millions of developers.
So this attack reached one point three terabytes per second, sending packets at the rate of one hundred
twenty six point nine million per second.
So the GitHub attack was memcache hedo US attack.
And he by the way, we didn't mention it actually, but it is one of the deadliest attacks types.
You can read more about it.
OK, so there were no botnet in.
Instead, the attackers, the amplification effect of a popular database caching system known as memcache.
And by putting memcache servers with spoofed requests, the attackers were able to amplify their attack
by a magnitude of about 50000.
Luckily, GitHub was using a video protection service, which was automatically alerted within 10 minutes
of the start of the attack.
This alert triggered the process of mitigating and the attacker was able to stop the attack quickly.
The massive data stack only end up only ended up lasting about 20 minutes.
The two thousand six didn't attack, and another massive didor attack was directed at then a major DNS
provider in October of 2016.
This attack was devastating and created distribution for many major sites, including Airbnb, Netflix,
big Visa, Amazon, The New York Times, Reddit and GitHub.
This was done using malware called Meeri, Meeri creates a botnet out of compromised Internet of Things
Iot devices such as cameras, motive's radios, printers and even baby monitors.
To create that the atrophic these compromised devices are all programmed to send request to a single
victim.
Fortunately then was able to resolve the attack within one day.
But the motive for the attack was never discovered.
Activist groups claimed responsibility for the attack as a response to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
being denied Internet access in Ecuador.
But there was no proof to back up this claim.
There are also suspicions that the attack was carried out by a disgruntled gamer.
The 2013 Spamhaus attack, sorry, maybe I mispronounced it.
Another largest ever at the time attack was 2013 attack directed at Spamhaus, an organization that
helps combat spam emails and spam related activity to Spamhaus is responsible for filtering as much
as 80 percent of all spam, which makes them a popular target for people who would like to see spam
emails reach their intended recipients.
So the attack drove traffic to Spamhaus at the rate of three hundred gigabit per second.
And this attack didn't achieve its goal.
But it did cause major issue for Linux then on the Internet exchange.
And the main culprit of the attack turned out to be a teenager hacker for high up in Boston who was
made to launch this attack.