29-09-2016 12:28 via infosecurity-magazine.com

Web Host Hit by DDoS of Over 1Tbps

Web Host Hit by DDoS of Over 1TbpsA French web hoster is claiming his firm has been hit by the biggest DDoS attack ever seen, powered by an IoT botnet with an estimated capacity of 1.5Tbps.Octave Klaba, the founder and CTO of OVH, took to Twitter late last week to reveal his firm was under attack from a stream of DDoS blitzes creeping towards and eventually past the 1Tbps mark.He claimed the botnet in question was initially comprised of around 145,000 internet-connected cameras and digital video
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