Akamai Reflective Ddos Tool. The NetBIOS reflection DDoS attack specifically NetBIOS Name Service NBNS reflection was observed by Akamai as occurring sporadically from March to July 2015. The amplification factor for this attack is 4294.
Lasting for two hours and peaking at 385 MPPS million packets per second the assault was the largest Akamai has even seen in terms of BPS but also. The first week of June 2020 arrived with a massive 144 TBPS terabytes per second distributed denial of service DDoS attack Akamai reveals. The use of specific types of protocol reflection attacks such as SNMP surge from time to time said Stuart Scholly senior vice president and general manager.
Akamai has found two toolsssdpscannerpy for scanning and ssdpattackpy for the actual attackthat have been used to conduct UPnP reflection campaigns.
What this tool does is provided a list of Akamai Edge Nodes and a valid cache missing request produces multiple requests that hit the origin server via the Akamai edge. The advisory details the DDoS threat posed by NetBIOS name server reflection RPC portmap reflection and Sentinel reflection in full including payload analysis a Snort rule and system hardening best practices. The first week of June 2020 arrived with a massive 144 TBPS terabytes per second distributed denial of service DDoS attack Akamai reveals. DDoS Reflection Attacks are a particularly effective vector in a perpetrators tool chest to take your site offline as they allow the attacker to summon a much smaller number of their zombie robots.
