Largest DDoS attack ever was laid on AWS with a magnitude of 2.3 TBPS

Amazon has recently faced the largest DDoS attack in the history and is under an alarming situation.

Amazon Web Service (AWS) suffered a DDoS attack last year that lasted for 8 hours and had a magnitude of 1.7 TBPS. AWS recently reported that a DDoS attack of 2.3 TBPS was faced in the mid of February 2020.

The report didn’t disclose the customer targeted in the attack, however, the company noted that it was a reflection attack carried out through CLDAP (Connection-less Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) web servers. The attack caused a menace and was reported to last for three days.

CLDAP is used to search, connect, and modify internet-shared directories; it is a relatively new alternative to the LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) protocol.

Furthermore, by using CLDAP servers, attackers can amplify DDoS traffic to up to 70 times its original size; hence, it is a commonly preferred protocol by DDoS-for-hire-services. AWS has numerous clients that rely hugely on the services provided by the organization.

A DDoS attack that lasted for 3 days over an established organization which takes good care of their security parameters is alarming and scary. Undergoing such attacks not only impacts the business of the organization but it interrupts all the others who use the services provided by AWS.

Amazon has now been targeted twice with a similar looking attack and the second one bring even more vast and lethal. Amazon has confirmed that they have looked into the matter and will ensure a stronger and stricter cyber security module to prevent such attacks.

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