DDoS Larger Than the Spamhaus Attack Strikes US and Europe

mask.of.sanity writes "CloudFlare has been hit by what appears to be the world's largest denial of service attack, in an assault that exploits an emerging and frightening threat vector. The Network Time Protocol Reflection attack exploits a timing mechanism that underpins a way the Internet works to greatly amplify the power of what would otherwise be a small and ineffective assault. CloudFlare said the attack tipped 400Gbps, 100Gbps higher than the previous record DDoS attack which used DNS reflective amplification."

You get some funny looks

[Cryacin]

When you approach the business and say that a zombie network is DDossing the website with a Reflection attack, and that's why no-one can access the website.

Re:You get some funny looks

[Shadyman]

Zombie used Reflection! It's super-effective!

Re:You get some funny looks

[FatdogHaiku]

Zombie used Reflection! It's super-effective!

We can only be thankful that this method is not available to the Vampires...