In Wake of ‘Biggest-Ever’ DDoS Attack, Experts Say Brace For More

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This week’s DDoS attack against GitHub is a harbinger of attacks to come that will use the highly effective memcached amplification technique, say experts.

The largest distributed denial of service attack was recorded Wednesday and targeted GitHub. The DDoS attack measured 1.3 Tbps of sustained traffic for eight minutes. That shattered a previous DDoS publicly record attack associated with the Mirai botnet in Sept., 2016 that maxed-out at half the intensity (620 Gbps).

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