{"id":104083,"date":"2025-03-06T13:21:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T13:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/massive-botnet-that-appeared-overnight-is-delivering-record-size-ddoses\/"},"modified":"2025-03-06T13:21:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T13:21:57","slug":"massive-botnet-that-appeared-overnight-is-delivering-record-size-ddoses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/massive-botnet-that-appeared-overnight-is-delivering-record-size-ddoses\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive botnet that appeared overnight is delivering record-size DDoSes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A newly discovered network botnet comprising\u00a0an estimated 30,000 webcams and video recorders\u2014with the largest concentration in the US\u2014has been delivering what is likely to be the biggest denial-of-service attack ever seen, a security researcher inside Nokia said.<\/p>\n<p>The botnet, tracked under the name Eleven11bot, first came to light in late February when researchers inside Nokia\u2019s Deepfield Emergency Response Team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/jeromemeyer_new-ddos-botnet-discovered-over-30000-hacked-activity-7301383140806119424-luty\/\">observed<\/a> large numbers of geographically dispersed IP addresses delivering \u201chyper-volumetric attacks.\u201d Eleven11bot has been delivering large-scale attacks ever since.<\/p>\n<p>Volumetric DDoSes shut down services by consuming all available bandwidth either inside the targeted network or its connection to the Internet. This approach works differently than exhaustion DDoSes, which over-exert the computing resources of a server. Hypervolumetric attacks are volumetric DDoses that deliver staggering amounts of data, typically measured in the terabits per second.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2025\/03\/massive-botnet-that-appeared-overnight-is-delivering-record-size-ddoses\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2025\/03\/massive-botnet-that-appeared-overnight-is-delivering-record-size-ddoses\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly discovered network botnet comprising\u00a0an estimated 30,000 webcams and video recorders\u2014with the largest concentration in the US\u2014has been delivering what is likely to be the biggest denial-of-service attack ever seen, a security researcher inside Nokia said. The botnet, tracked under the name Eleven11bot, first came to light in late February when researchers inside Nokia\u2019s Deepfield Emergency Response Team observed large numbers of geographically dispersed IP addresses delivering \u201chyper-volumetric attacks.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Massive botnet that appeared overnight is delivering record-size DDoSes - UshopWell.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/massive-botnet-that-appeared-overnight-is-delivering-record-size-ddoses\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Massive botnet that appeared overnight is delivering record-size DDoSes - UshopWell.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A newly discovered network botnet comprising\u00a0an estimated 30,000 webcams and video recorders\u2014with the largest concentration in the US\u2014has been delivering what is likely to be the biggest denial-of-service attack ever seen, a security researcher inside Nokia said. 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