{"id":1237441,"date":"2025-03-06T08:21:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T13:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237441"},"modified":"2025-03-06T08:21:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T13:21:57","slug":"massive-botnet-that-appeared-overnight-is-delivering-record-size-ddoses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237441","title":{"rendered":"Massive botnet that appeared overnight is delivering record-size DDoSes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A newly discovered network botnet comprising\u00a0an estimated 30,000 webcams and video recorders\u2014with the largest concentration in the US\u2014has been delivering what is likely to be the biggest denial-of-service attack ever seen, a security researcher inside Nokia said.<\/p>\n<p>The botnet, tracked under the name Eleven11bot, first came to light in late February when researchers inside Nokia\u2019s Deepfield Emergency Response Team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/jeromemeyer_new-ddos-botnet-discovered-over-30000-hacked-activity-7301383140806119424-luty\/\">observed<\/a> large numbers of geographically dispersed IP addresses delivering \u201chyper-volumetric attacks.\u201d Eleven11bot has been delivering large-scale attacks ever since.<\/p>\n<p>Volumetric DDoSes shut down services by consuming all available bandwidth either inside the targeted network or its connection to the Internet. This approach works differently than exhaustion DDoSes, which over-exert the computing resources of a server. Hypervolumetric attacks are volumetric DDoses that deliver staggering amounts of data, typically measured in the terabits per second.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2025\/03\/massive-botnet-that-appeared-overnight-is-delivering-record-size-ddoses\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2025\/03\/massive-botnet-that-appeared-overnight-is-delivering-record-size-ddoses\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly discovered network botnet comprising\u00a0an estimated 30,000 webcams and video recorders\u2014with the largest concentration in the US\u2014has been delivering what is likely to be the biggest denial-of-service attack ever seen, a security researcher inside Nokia said. The botnet, tracked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237441\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1237441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1237441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1237441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1237441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}