DDoS Attacks Goes high to 400 Gbit/s

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There has been a record breaking in the DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks on the internet which happened on Monday. The DDoS attacking went as further as 400 Gbits per second. This is a large number compared to the previously witnessed attack which was measured to be approximately 300 Gbits per second.
DDoS Firm, CloudFlare that deals with defense disclosed to one of its customer on Monday that it was experiencing a massive attack which according to the intensity, was much bigger compared to #Spamhaus attacks which were witnessed in the previous year. This was the word of CEO of tweetedClousFlare (https://twitter.com/eastdakota/statuses/433002992694874112). Mathew Prince, he also added that the attacks targeted weakness in the network Timing protocol.
Accordingly, the attacks resulted in network slowdowns in Europe and may have affected other service providers. He went ahead to tweet that, “Someone’s got a big new cannon, Start of ugly things to come,” According to him the NTP attacking are becoming extreme and dangerous. He refused to disclose the name of the customer being targeted by the attack due to privacy policies.
According to the British Authority, they are trying to track the attackers (see http://www.informationweek.com/security/attacks-and-breaches/british-spies-hit-anonymous-with-ddos-attacks/d/d-id/1113719?itc=edit_in_body_cross). The attack on CloudFlare's was confirmed by Oles Van Herman, who is the head of French firm OVH.com. According to him, his firm had experienced a DDoS attacks which went as much as 350 Gbit per second. According to him his firm network was a victim of the attack and not the source. Accordingly this revealed a reflective attack where by an attacker uses other networks IP to send...

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...d, there is a (ntpd) network time protocol bug which can be messed to initiate reflection attacks. The bug can receive special commands and then amplify them by 58.5x.
The question that many businesses may be contemplating now is how best they can prevent attackers who go after the weakness of NTP via the use of DDoS. The answer may be for them to upgrade the versions of ntpd since the previous versions under 4.2.7 have been proved to malfunction.
A business may go further and ensure that the security system is up to date to reduce the chances of attacks. Various research teams such as Team Cymru has recently released a new secured NTP templates (http://www.team-cymru.org/ReadingRoom/Templates/secure-ntp-template.html) which will be used for Cisco IOS, Unix and Juniper Junos. There is an additional Scanning Prject for NTP which for free scanning services to servers.

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