everal days ago one of our clients became the target of a massive DNS DDoS attack, peaking at approximately 25Mpps (Million packets per second).
The attack fit the description of other recently reported DNS floods, like the one that brought down UltraDNS earlier this month. With multiple reports coming from different directions, and with several large scale attacks on our own infrastructure, we are now convinced that what we are seeing here is an evolving new trend - one that can endanger even the most hardened network infrastructures.
more here...........http://www.incapsula.com/blog/massive-dns-ddos-flood.html
The attack fit the description of other recently reported DNS floods, like the one that brought down UltraDNS earlier this month. With multiple reports coming from different directions, and with several large scale attacks on our own infrastructure, we are now convinced that what we are seeing here is an evolving new trend - one that can endanger even the most hardened network infrastructures.
more here...........http://www.incapsula.com/blog/massive-dns-ddos-flood.html