Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses
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Re: Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses
#2Re: Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses
#3We should make residential proxies illegal
Re: Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses
#4Imagine how much of that traffic was just the bots following the endless redirects.
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#5Related. Others?
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Re: Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses
#6Source: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azureinfrastructure...
Switched above. Thanks!
Re: Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses
#7We should make residential proxies illegal
...and suddenly no one is allowed to VPN back through their home router.
Re: Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses
#8We should make residential proxies illegal
We really shouldn’t - this seems like perhaps one of the worst ideas one could propose in an era of rising authoritarian rule. Seems like a bad time to be putting silly restrictions on how folks route their traffic.
Re: Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses
#9Imagine how much of that traffic was just the bots following the endless redirects.
Those redirects would crash Azure, i'm betting a grand
Re: Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses
#10Funny enough just got an error trying to reach to the blog
Proxy Error
The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.
The proxy server could not handle the request
Reason: Error reading from remote server