150,000 IoT Devices behind the 1Tbps DDoS attack on OVH | Homeland Security Degrees

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The hosting provider OVH continues to face massive DDoS attacks launched by a botnet composed at least of 150000 IoT devices.

Last week, the hosting provider OVH faced 1Tbps DDoS attack, likely the largest one ever seen.

The OVH founder and CTO Octave Klaba reported the 1Tbps DDoS attack on Twitter sharing an image that lists the multiple sources of the attack.

“Last days, we got lot of huge DDoS. Here, the list of “bigger that 100Gbps” only. You can see the simultaneous DDoS are close to 1Tbps !” said Klaba.

Klaba explained that the servers of its company were hit …

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