Security News > 2022 > July > Meet Mantis, the tiny shrimp that launched 3,000 DDoS attacks

The botnet behind the largest-ever HTTPS-based distributed-denial-of-service attack is now named after a tiny shrimp.

While Mantis initially launched its network-flooding-traffic attack over HTTPS, in the month since its discovery, Mantis has launched more than 3,000 HTTP DDoS attacks against the firm's customers, Yoachimik added.

These HTTPS-based attacks are more expensive than their HTTP counterparts because it costs more in compute resources to establish a secure TLS connection.

As the company's security team has been following Mantis' targets, we're told most of the attacks attempted to strike internet and telecommunications' firms, with 36 percent of attack share.

It's worth noting that in April, just months before mitigating Mantis, Cloudflare said it stomped another HTTPS DDoS attack that reached a peak of 15.3 million rps.

Cybersecurity outfit Kaspersky recently reported this type of assault was up 46 percent year-over-year due, in large part, to DDoS attacks associated with Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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