Still Remember the recent DDoS attack on Spamhaus at 300Gbps? This Recorded ad the largest ever DDoS attack so far. On 27th May, another similar method of DDoS attack (DNS Reflection Method) has launched toward an unnamed financial firm. The attack has reached up to 167Gbps. Prolexic has announced that they have successfully mitigated for their client and distributed it across to their 4 cloud based scrubbing center in Hong Kong, London, San Jose and Ashburn. According to Prolexic, scrubbing center at London has mitigated majority of the attacks, around 90Gbps. Although smaller than the Spamhaus assault, it still registered as the largest ever defended by Prolexic in its 10-year history.
