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Largest DDoS In History Reaches 300 Billion Bits Per Second

Posted by Unknown on from the making-enemies dept.

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."

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  1. Watch your clauses, people! by Looker_Device · · Score: 5, Informative

    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."

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    Your political party doesn't care about your rights and only represents corporate interests.
    1. Re:Watch your clauses, people! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      I came here to say this, and was all prepared to lambaste the summary, when I took the time to discover that the sentence is straight from TFA!

      Great jorb, New York Times. And they wonder why newspapers are dying.

    2. Re:Watch your clauses, people! by PartyBoy!911 · · Score: 5, Informative

      Me neither, Netflix isn't even available for Dutch people.

  2. Alleged attempts to enter the bunker by force. by Gorath99 · · Score: 5, Informative
    From the summary:

    Dutch authorities and the police have made several attempts to enter the bunker by force but failed to do so.

    From TFA:

    Cyberbunker brags on its Web site that it has been a frequent target of law enforcement because of its “many controversial customers.” The company claims that at one point it fended off a Dutch SWAT team. “Dutch authorities and the police have made several attempts to enter the bunker by force,” the site said. “None of these attempts were successful.”

    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.

    1. Re:Alleged attempts to enter the bunker by force. by 1u3hr · · Score: 5, Informative

      You realize Cyberbunker is situated in a bunker designed to survive a nuclear war.

      You don't have to kill them. Just unplugging their Internet connection would be enough, Then padlock the door and wait till they knock on it and ask to be let out. How long could that be? A week at the outside?

      I don't believe the bullshit about then fending off SWAT teams anyway. That's what they say on their own website. No government really cares about spam enough to send in a SWAT team. It's all "protected commercial speech", and plenty of assholes in government are happy to let them do it. If they gave a shit, they know who is DDOSing and exactly where they are. They could arrest them. Freeze their bank accounts. Turn off their electricity, water. But they do nothing.

  3. So.... by benjfowler · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  4. better articld by WGFCrafty · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21954636

    No b/s subscription paywall nonsense

  5. Spamhaus reports, _users_ block by Onymous+Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.