BrianKrebsAnd just like that, the largest known DDoS has nearly doubled in size over the past couple of months. Cloudflare promises more details, and says the largest attack (11.5 terabits per second) came from Google Cloud.
Robee? Na! 🌈@briankrebs Probably turn out to be just Google’s AI harvesting learning data
just_one_bear@briankrebs If rather not have to get used to typing "DDoSaaS" but these are the times we live in...
robert daniel pickardif they have any sense of humor or dungeons and dragons players among them they should name the incident after Themberchaud because of the graph
VessOnSecurity@briankrebs It lasted only 35 seconds?! Uhm, that's shorter than the time the user needs to decide "hmm, the page isn't loading for some reason; let me click the Refresh button".
@bontchev basically a power test
Damian Menscher@briankrebs Cloudflare already corrected their statement (this was primarily an IoT botnet). I point back to my earlier statement that botnets compete over vulnerable IoT... this sudden growth is the expected result of law enforcement shutting down Rapperbot 2 weeks ago.
Carl (He/Him)@briankrebs Why isn't this getting more coverage?
I wanted to read your coverage of this ... and your site (for me) is freezing on https://briankrebs.com/lander with no content. When I reveal source, I see this as the main part of the page:
<body><div id="root"></div></body>
I'm betting that div should have something in it.
@nitpicking Sorry to say this, but I don't know who owns briankrebs.com. It's not me. My site is krebsonsecurity.com.
@briankrebs I knew that. I did.
Once. Then it escaped from my brain.