Largest DDoS attack so far this year peaked at 45Gbps

A week-long DDoS attack that launched a flood of traffic at an Asian e-commerce company in early November was the biggest such incident so far this year, according to Prolexic, a company that defends websites against such attacks.

Prolexic CTO Paul Sop said the attack, occurring between 5 and 12 November, was three times larger in PPS volume than the biggest attack it had mitigated previously, reaching 69 million PPS, a bandwidth of 45Gbps and 15,000 connections per second.

What is new is that the attackers had tried to hit the DDoS defences, which suggests sophistication; attackers assumed that the organisation would have some defences in place that needed to be overcome.

Read more -here-