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Largest DDoS In History Reaches 300 Billion Bits Per Second
An anonymous reader writes "The NYT is reporting that the Largest DDoS in history reached 300 Gbps. The dispute started when the spam-fighting group Spamhaus added the Dutch company Cyberbunker to its blacklist, which is used by e-mail providers to weed out spam. Millions of ordinary Internet users have experienced delays in services like Netflix or could not reach a particular Web site for a short time. Dutch authorities and the police have made several attempts to enter the bunker by force but failed to do so. The attacks were first mentioned publicly last week by Cloudflare, an Internet security firm in Silicon Valley that was trying to defend against the attacks and as a result became a target."
The dispute started when the spam-fighting group, called Spamhaus, added the Dutch company Cyberbunker to its blacklist, which is used by e-mail providers to weed out spam.
I think what they meant to say here was: "The dispute started when the spam-fighting group Spamhaus, which maintains a blacklist used by e-mail providers to weed out spam, added the Dutch company Cyberbunker to its blacklist."
Your political party doesn't care about your rights and only represents corporate interests.
I find it very interesting that they are using a variation on the Old Smurf attacks for this. Sending a message to other places that work as an amplifier. You would think that after 10 years we would have learned that blind, unchecked, forwarding is not a good thing.
Papa Legba come and open the gate
It is a bunker. And it's not so simple, as this swat team discovered.
From TFA:
In other words: Cyberbunker is not currently under assault by police, and we have only their word that they ever have been. I suspect that at one time they were successful in having visiting cops think nobody was home by being real quiet and quickly turning off all the lights.
Who'd they piss off?
Spamhaus must be costing somebody (or some people) a LOT of money to draw such a massive attack.
I admire their balls -- Spamhaus are fighting serious and organised criminals, people who are perfectly capable of raping and murdering folks who get in their way. It wasn't so long ago that the Russian mafia targeted a Russian security specialist by kidnapping his daughter, raping her, injecting her with heroin and selling her into slavery.
They are not very nice people at all, and shouldn't be fucked around with. Picking fights with organised criminals should be left to law enforcement.
That is not a SWAT team, those guys would be better armed and a little more bullet proof. This is just Dutch police in riot gear, of which these woven bamboo shields are a standard component. According to an ME (riot police) buddy, the bamboo shields are pretty good, lighter than the more common plastic shields, and more flexible, meaning they are better at deflecting thrown objects. The only disadvantage is that they do not stand up well to stab weapons, which has not really been an issue until a group of squatters defended themselves with iron pipes with large spikes capable of puncturing these shields.
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
http://bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21954636
No b/s subscription paywall nonsense
More likely some mafiosi that controls malware and spambots, and their "clients" don't like a bunch of amateurs blocking their messages.
DING DING DING
From the BBC article:
Spamhaus has alleged that Cyberbunker, in cooperation with "criminal gangs" from Eastern Europe and Russia, is behind the attack.
What this is really a case off is an asswipe getting away in civilized society with being an asswipe because the rest of us aren't asswipes.
Yeah, but enough about Spamhaus. Seriously, this crap couldn't have happened to a better group of passive-aggressive assholes. I'm glad that they're finally getting a taste of their own medicine, even if it is coming from an equally disreputable group.
What materials exactly are they that are going to resist 4500 C cutting tools? You realize that a lot of bunkers are largely concrete, and that a thermal lance will go right through that, right? And that no bunker would completely withstand a nuclear blast-- it would take some damage, there is just sufficient material and the blast is sufficiently spread out that the bunker stands.
Once you start focusing with a lance on a bunker door, or break out a bunker-buster bomb designed to penetrate before exploding (rather than the mid-air explosion of a nuclear bomb), the bunker will fall.
The different lists published by Spamhaus distinguish whether the IPs are directly responsible or are organizationally related. There is no abuse of power here — customers subscribe to the lists that they want, and use those lists to block as they see fit. Spamhaus isn't forcing anyone to use the lists, nor is it misrepresenting what's in the lists.