[AusNOG] Github was hit by 1.35Tb DDoS attack establishing a new record

[Rory Jones]

Sorry to thread crap, but I couldn’t help finding it slightly ironic wondering what would happen if the hackers in charge would have needed to pull some remotely hacker-y software for the exploit...

Kind regards,
Rory
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This week GitHub was hit by 1.35Tb DDoS attack. It thus established a new record. After few minutes the attack was mitigated by Akamai, who was called in by GitHub.

https://githubengineering.com/ddos-incident-report/

The attackers used misconfigured Memcached servers.

Just another FYI to reinforce against this exploit

Kind Regards,

Jamie Le
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