Mēris, a new botnet, breaks DDoS attack record
According to Qrator Labs researchers, a new botnet known as Mēris has appeared, which has a recorded power of 21.8 million of request per second (RPS) so far and is composed of at least 200.000 devices. A fact that has helped it break the record for the largest DDoS attack by volume.
Its features are based on the use of the SOCKS4 proxy at the affected device, HTTP pipelining technique for DDoS attacks and open port 5678.
References
- 09/09/2021 blog.qrator.net Mēris botnet, climbing to the record
- 09/09/2021 bleepingcomputer.com New Mēris botnet breaks DDoS record with 21.8 million RPS attack
- 10/09/2021 xataka.com Así es Meris, una nueva botnet que ha conseguido batir dos veces el récord del ataque DDoS más grande de la historia
