Security News > 2024 > July > OVHcloud blames record-breaking DDoS attack on MikroTik botnet
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Analyzing some of those attacks revealed the extensive use of core network devices, particularly Mikrotik models, making the attacks more impactful and challenging to detect and stop.
Record-breaking DDoS. Earlier this year, OVHcloud had to mitigate a massive packet rate attack that reached 840 Mpps, surpassing the previous record holder, an 809 Mpps DDoS attack targeting a European bank, which Akamai mitigated in June 2020.
"In April 2024, we even mitigated a record-breaking DDoS attack reaching ~840 Mpps, just above the previous record reported by Akamai."
OVHcloud says many of the high packet rate attacks it recorded, including the record-breaking attack from April, originate from compromised MirkoTik Cloud Core Router devices designed for high-performance networking.
OVHcloud calculated that hijacking 1% of the exposed models into a botnet could give attackers enough firepower to launch attacks, reaching 2.28 billion packets per second.
Malware botnet bricked 600,000 routers in mysterious 2023 attack.
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