Security News > 2024 > July > OVHcloud blames record-breaking DDoS attack on MikroTik botnet

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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