Security Researchers from Future’s Insikt Threat Intelligence Research Group are reporting* that the DDoS attacks that targeted the Netherlands financial sector in January was the first known use of IoTroop – also known as the Reaper Botnet, a variant of Mirai. The initial attack was a DNS amplification attack with traffic volumes peaking at 30Gs according to Insikt. Andrew Lloyd, President of Corero commented below.
“While the reported amplitude of the attack (at 30Gbps) was nowhere close to record-breaking, it is still higher than most of the DDoS attacks that we see. Corero’s latest DDoS Trends Report* found that 96% of DDoS attacks were less than 5Gbps and only 1% above 10Gbps. In our experience, even the largest banks and financial institutions often have a protection gap within their DDoS defenses where short-duration, modest amplitude attacks go undefended.”
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