A France-based hosting provider OVH was the victim to the record-breaking Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Over the week, it received attacks that reached over one terabit per second (1 Tbps).
Octave Klaba, the founder and CTO of OVH, tweeted when his company was hit with two simultaneous DDoS attacks whose combined bandwidth reached almost 1 Tbps.
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 ! pic.twitter.com/XmlwAU9JZ6— Octave Klaba / Oles (@olesovhcom) September 22, 2016
The screenshot posted by Klaba shows multiple DDoS attacks that exceed 100 Gbps, including one that peaked at 799 Gbps alone, making it the largest DDoS attack ever reported.
According to him, the massive DDoS attack was carried out via a network of over 152,000 IoT devices that includes compromised CCTV cameras and personal video recorders.