DDoS
Coordinated traffic flood from many sources.
Origin
Trin00 (1999) was the first widely-distributed DDoS toolkit. The 2016 Mirai botnet — IoT cameras attacking Dyn DNS — knocked Twitter, GitHub, and Reddit offline for hours and made volumetric DDoS a board-level topic.
Where it shows up in production
- Cloudflare DDoS Anycast network absorbs L3/L4 floods at edge; published a 71M rps record in February 2023.
- AWS Shield Two tiers — Standard is free on all AWS-fronted traffic; Advanced adds dedicated response.
- Mirai botnet (2016) IoT-driven 1.2 Tbps flood against Dyn DNS. Triggered the modern era of always-on DDoS mitigation.
Sources & further reading
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