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(Image credit: Getty Images / NurPhoto) Microsoft 's Azure has mitigated the largest botnet attack in history, with over 500,000 devices used to send up to 15.72 terabits per second to a single cloud endpoint in Australia, which is roughly equivalent to 3.5 million Netflix movies streamed simultaneously per-second.
In a blog post , Microsoft claims the Azure DDoS protection was able to detect the attack and filter the traffic so customers remained unaffected, but urged organizations to validate the security on any internet-facing devices to help prevent future attacks.
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks use botnets of infected systems and devices to send unprecedented quantities of traffic to particular sites and servers in order to overwhelm them. It's a brute-force method to bring down services that can be particularly effective if safeguards aren't in place.
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Reference reading
- https://www.tomshardware.com/software/security-software/SPONSORED_LINK_URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/software/security-software/microsoft-azure-blocks-largest-ddos-attack-in-history-attack-equivalent-to-streaming-3-5-million-netflix-movies-at-once-15-72-terabits-per-second-from-500-000-ip-addresses-tied-to-iot-botnet#main
- https://www.tomshardware.com
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