Hackers have combined several botnets to carry out the most powerful DDoS attacks on the Network. Experts of the Russian company StormWall, a company specializing in protecting businesses from cyber threats, have recorded attacks with a capacity of more than 1 Tbit /s, lasting for several days. Most often, they affected companies in the entertainment sector, retail, publishing houses and the fintech sector.
StormWall reported that the attacks were carried out using a new botnet consisting of several tens of thousands of servers with different versions of operating systems, as well as webcams, routers, smart TVs.
Since the botnet includes different devices based on different operating systems, it can be concluded that they are infected in different ways. Each attack had approximately the same power, but at the same time different geographical distribution, which indicates that not one botnet was used, but several combined into a single control system.
According to experts, the botnet's resources were divided between several users who could launch DDoS attacks simultaneously. At the same time, to launch the attack, each attacker used not the entire botnet, but a part of it. But even a part allowed organizing an attack with a capacity of several hundred gigabits per second.
According to Artem Tereshchenko, Development Director of VAS Experts, today the Internet security resources are at a fairly high level, and in order to hack them, you need to generate as much traffic as possible.
Experts believe that the botnet poses risks for both technology companies that provide their services over the Internet and for their customers. The purpose of the botnet is not just to harm, but to seize the personal data of users and commercial data of the company itself.
According to StormWall experts, hackers are combining botnets in order to get the maximum attack power that can even penetrate DDoS protection.
