FastNetMon detected record 1.5 billion packet per second DDoS attack

A distributed denial-of-service attack targeting a DDoS mitigation vendor somewhere in Western Europe has been spotted and mitigated by FastNetMon.

The firm says the attack peaked at a massive 1.5 billion packets per second, making it one of the largest packet-rate floods confirmed to date.

FastNetMon says that the traffic was mainly a UDP flood sourced from compromised customer-premises equipment, including IoT devices and MikroTik routers.

Part of a dangerous trend

The attack reportedly drew on resources from more than 11,000 unique networks worldwide.

The targeted company wasn’t named, although FastNetMon described it as a DDoS scrubbing provider, a type of service that filters ...