Posted on 06/07/2016 9:14:33 PM PDT by Utilizer
Nineteen distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks exceeded 100 Gbps during the first three months of the year, hitting a new record, according to researchers from Akamai.
The year prior, just eight attacks were over 100 gigabit per second, the firm said.
In its latest state of the internet report [pdf], the content delivery network provider analysed more than two petabytes of threat intelligence data and found the total number of DDoS attacks increased by over 125 per cent year on year in the first quarter of 2016.
Most of the attacks were achieved through abusing vulnerable network time protcol (NTP) servers, using reflection to amplify small queries into responses with large amounts of data that are redirected at victim systems and networks.
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