HiTech Service Successfully Confronted Powerful DDoS Attack
This is a story of a highly successful and quick fight with DDoS-ers.
New York, NY, June 16, 2015 --(PR.com)-- Pre-history
One day a system administrator got an extraordinary e-mail.
Someone threatened the company to start powerful DDoS attack on the one of the company's client's site. They wanted money and gave the company a day.
They are is one of HiTech Service's respectable clino actually ents having vast IT infrastructure.
They wanted 25 Bitcoins to a predefine account.
Problem Evaluation
Next day the DDoS-ing started as they promised.
The attackers used IP addresses as targets for UDP amplification DDoS attack against customer's uplinks, so we used BGP blackhole communities to discard traffic at Edge routers of upstream Tier1 ISPs.
Taking into account difference between average daily traffic and traffic when DDoS-ing, they were getting approximately 100 GBit/sec load on the network. Traffic dump shown ~120.000 infected nodes that were producing the ddos attack itself. This impresses a lot and shows that an average DDoS-er has such considerable resource in hand.
Problem Resolution
HiTech beat the attack in 10 minutes. The attackers had an IP address as a target for DDoS-ng, so they used BGP protocol to redirect attackers to nowhere:
- They captured all traffic hitting router uplinks during attack;
- They did BGP blackhole for attacked IP addresses;
- They started website on other Uplinks and forwarded traffic via Cloudflare to protect customer infrastructure from UDP flood attack.
That's all. If you have the same troubles with attackers, call HiTech. They help.
Statistics
-Statistics on botnet–assisted DDoS attacks in Q1 2015 (excerpts from securelist.com)
-In Q1 2015, 23.095 DDoS attacks were reported, targeting web resources in 76 countries.
-Most DDoS attacks targeted web resources in China, the USA and Canada.
-China, the USA and Canada were the countries that faced the largest number of DDoS attacks.
-In Q1 2015, just like in Q4 2014, bots designed to infect Linux servers were more active than those targeting Windows devices.
About HiTech Service.
HiTech Service was founded in 2006 by a group of result driven professionals with the task to create an entirely new platform to built proprietary weather indexes and to use the technology to distribute the financial data to customers via web and Bloomberg.
Now the company provides a full scope of IT services including software development, quality assurance, managed services and enterprise customer service. HiTech competency centers are the perfect way to take advantage of lower cost off–shore resources and cross-group synergies. HiTech Service's competency center is a multi–discipline, dedicated team that works side–by–side to support each other.
hitech-ua.com/
One day a system administrator got an extraordinary e-mail.
Someone threatened the company to start powerful DDoS attack on the one of the company's client's site. They wanted money and gave the company a day.
They are is one of HiTech Service's respectable clino actually ents having vast IT infrastructure.
They wanted 25 Bitcoins to a predefine account.
Problem Evaluation
Next day the DDoS-ing started as they promised.
The attackers used IP addresses as targets for UDP amplification DDoS attack against customer's uplinks, so we used BGP blackhole communities to discard traffic at Edge routers of upstream Tier1 ISPs.
Taking into account difference between average daily traffic and traffic when DDoS-ing, they were getting approximately 100 GBit/sec load on the network. Traffic dump shown ~120.000 infected nodes that were producing the ddos attack itself. This impresses a lot and shows that an average DDoS-er has such considerable resource in hand.
Problem Resolution
HiTech beat the attack in 10 minutes. The attackers had an IP address as a target for DDoS-ng, so they used BGP protocol to redirect attackers to nowhere:
- They captured all traffic hitting router uplinks during attack;
- They did BGP blackhole for attacked IP addresses;
- They started website on other Uplinks and forwarded traffic via Cloudflare to protect customer infrastructure from UDP flood attack.
That's all. If you have the same troubles with attackers, call HiTech. They help.
Statistics
-Statistics on botnet–assisted DDoS attacks in Q1 2015 (excerpts from securelist.com)
-In Q1 2015, 23.095 DDoS attacks were reported, targeting web resources in 76 countries.
-Most DDoS attacks targeted web resources in China, the USA and Canada.
-China, the USA and Canada were the countries that faced the largest number of DDoS attacks.
-In Q1 2015, just like in Q4 2014, bots designed to infect Linux servers were more active than those targeting Windows devices.
About HiTech Service.
HiTech Service was founded in 2006 by a group of result driven professionals with the task to create an entirely new platform to built proprietary weather indexes and to use the technology to distribute the financial data to customers via web and Bloomberg.
Now the company provides a full scope of IT services including software development, quality assurance, managed services and enterprise customer service. HiTech competency centers are the perfect way to take advantage of lower cost off–shore resources and cross-group synergies. HiTech Service's competency center is a multi–discipline, dedicated team that works side–by–side to support each other.
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HiTech Service
Nataliya Nekrasova
+1 (646) 776-5846
http://hitech-ua.com/
Nataliya Nekrasova
+1 (646) 776-5846
http://hitech-ua.com/
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