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Armies of hacked IoT devices launch unprecedented DDoS attacks

French hosting firm OVH was hit with two concurrent DDoS attacks whose combined bandwidth reached almost 1 terabit per second. One of the two attacks peaked at 799Gbps, making it the largest ever reported. The source of the junk traffic was a botnet made up of 145,607 hacked digital video recorders and IP cameras. The attack came after cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs’ website was the target of a record DDoS attack that flooded the site at a rate of 620Gbps.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3124344/armies-of-hacked-iot-devices-launch-unprecedented-ddos-attacks.html

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