Hacker News with Generative AI: DDoS

DDoS Mitigation Leak (kentik.com)
In this edition of Beyond Their Intended Scope, we take a look at last week’s BGP leak by a DDoS mitigation company which impacted networks around the world. We look at the impacts in both BGP and traffic data, and discuss how RFC 9234’s “Only to Customer” BGP Path Attribute could have helped.
LLM crawlers continue to DDoS Sourcehut (status.sr.ht)
SourceHut continues to face disruptions due to aggressive LLM crawlers.
Record-breaking 5.6 Tbps DDoS attack and global DDoS trends for 2024 Q4 (cloudflare.com)
Cloudflare’s DDoS defense systems successfully and autonomously detected and blocked a 5.6 Terabit per second (Tbps) DDoS attack — the largest attack ever reported.