ekZepp@lemmy.world to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-27 days agoWhat is happening? [UPDATE - SOLVED - HUGE DDoS Attack]lemmy.worldimagemessage-square19linkfedilinkarrow-up1138arrow-down12file-text
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https://ww17.lestat.org/ https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/cloudflare-says-it-has-once-again-blocked-the-largest-ever-ddos-attack-in-history
minus-squarebizarroland@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up65·8 days agoThere’s a really large DDOS attack going on right now. Lemmy could be getting caught up in it, somehow.
minus-squarepoVoq@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down3·7 days ago“Somehow”… seems to be caused by using centralized MitM Clownflare that supposedly protects against DDOS 🙄
minus-square9limmer@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up33·7 days agoYikes! https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/cloudflare-says-it-has-once-again-blocked-the-largest-ever-ddos-attack-in-history Cloudflare has said it recently successfully stopped the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack ever recorded. The attack reached 22.2 terabits per second and 10.6 billion packets per second, setting a new world record.
minus-squareekZepp@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·7 days agoHoly shit. But it lasted only 40 seconds… This smell like a field test for something worse.
minus-squareSailing7@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·7 days agoMight be, yes. But that suuurely cost a fuckton of money.
minus-squarebizarroland@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·7 days agoI mean, yes, but this one is really huge. I think it’s in the trillions of source nodes, if I understand the blurb I saw about it.
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There’s a really large DDOS attack going on right now.
Lemmy could be getting caught up in it, somehow.
“Somehow”… seems to be caused by using centralized MitM Clownflare that supposedly protects against DDOS 🙄
Yikes!
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/cloudflare-says-it-has-once-again-blocked-the-largest-ever-ddos-attack-in-history
Holy shit. But it lasted only 40 seconds… This smell like a field test for something worse.
Might be, yes. But that suuurely cost a fuckton of money.
When isn’t there one going?
I mean, yes, but this one is really huge. I think it’s in the trillions of source nodes, if I understand the blurb I saw about it.