Kentik

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Some Mirai botnets grew quite large and were used to launch devastating attacks, including one on October 21st, 2016 that waged an attack against Domain Name Service (DNS) firm Dyn that disrupted Twitter, Netflix, Reddit and a host of other major sites.

IoT 40

IoT Advertising Internet Network 40

Kentik

JULY 28, 2021

Or standing in line at the bank or a department store and when the clerk says, “The system is really slow today.” Performing a TCP traceroute to IP addresses and host names is just the beginning. Latency : Missing packets in connection-oriented protocols such as TCP and QUIC result in lost packets getting resent.

Cloud 116

Cloud TCP Routers Protocol 116

CloudFaire

JANUARY 21, 2025

HTTPS in legitimate traffic and DDoS attacks: 2024 Q4 Layer 3/Layer 4 DDoS attacks The top three most common Layer 3/Layer 4 (network layer) attack vectors were SYN flood (38%), DNS flood attacks (16%), and UDP floods (14%). A malicious actor can spoof the victims IP address as a seeder IP address within Trackers and DHT systems.

IP Address 121

IP Address Network Networking Server 121