A cyberwar that went on between spam-fighting organization Spamhaus and a Dutch web hosting company Cyberbunker has delivered one of the largest DDoS attack in history.
It began when Spamhaus hosted a blacklist made up of servers that, it believes, are designed to send spam around the world. And Cyberbunker was included on the list. According to a spokesman for Spamhaus, the organization was attacked by a massive DDoS with traffic peaking at 300Gbps.
At the time, this was six times greater than similar attacks designed to take down websites with powerful defenses, such as banks.
The DDoS attack was targeting Spamhaus' DNS servers. According to reports, this resulted to some service slowdowns across the internet due to the sheer amount of data hitting the DNS. Some websites have been affected, and one of which was Netflix.
Spamhaus was able to stay online because of its massive DNS server system, as well as having help from companies, including Google, that carried some of the load.
Cyberbunker that was in a cyberwar with Spamhaus, didn't confirmed that it was behind the attacks, but Spamhaus believes that it was. Spamhaus has also accused "criminal gangs" from Eastern Europe and Russia to have participated in the attacks.
