Heya. I can’t speak with any evidence but I do have some infrastructure in Brazil and I can tell you I saw stubbornly persistent packet loss for the past two months. Across at least two tier one backbones. I don’t know anything about 500Gbps but large sustained DDoSes against BR locations for the past two months would not surprise me in the least.
Cheers, Max > On Aug 31, 2016, at 3:37 PM, Dennis B <[email protected]> wrote: > > https://www.arbornetworks.com/blog/asert/rio-olympics-take-gold-540gbsec-sustained-ddos-attacks/ > > I've used SP Peakflow before and I have my opinions. With all the > intelligence out there about DDoS attacks, DDoS attackers, DDoS tools and > techniques this article leaves me with ton's of questions. > > IE: What industry was the attack target? Was it a single customer or > multiple customers at the same time? What was the attack vector? Was it > multi-vector? What was the duration of the 540Gbps attack? Did you actually > block the attack or did you just report on it from your cloud signaling > alliance aka cloud offering? Could you help explain if the peak of the > attack lasted X minutes, Y hours, Z days? What was the attack targeted > protocol? Was it TCP against TCP or UDP against UDP or UDP against TCP? > > I have to be honest, IDK if Arbor is attempting to claim the largest > recorded DDoS attack in the world cup of DDoS attacks but the fact that > your a local appliance shop. Selling to the global 100 and T1-3 ISPs - I'd > hope for more than a marketing ploy to take the top attack vector. > > Thought I'd ask Nanog if they heard any whispers about this "white > buffalo", which ISPs were Transiting the event, what course of actions were > taken. > > Thanks!
