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Record DDoS pummels site with once-unimaginable 7.3Tbps of junk traffic
Attacker rained down the equivalent of 9,300 full-length HD movies in just 45 seconds.
Reflection attacks direct malicious traffic to one or more third-party intermediaries, such as Network Time Protocol services for syncing server clocks. Additionally, by choosing intermediary servers known to generate responses that are in some cases thousands of times bigger than the originating request, attackers can magnify the firepower available to them by a thousandfold or more. Dan Goodin is Senior Security Editor at Ars Technica, where he oversees coverage of malware, computer espionage, botnets, hardware hacking, encryption, and passwords.
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