Security Experts at Incapsula have recently detected a powerful DNS DDoS attack organized by attackers abusing DDoS Protection Services servers. The attack lasted for about seven hours flooding the target with 25 million packets per second (mpps) The attackers hijacked traffic of two separate high-capacity servers belonging to unnamed DDoS protection service providers, located in Canada and in China. Both companies involved in the attack have confirmed that their servers were abused. This is the first time we encountered rogue scrubbing servers used to carry out large-scale DDoS attacks.”]
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