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Aisuru Botnet Drives DDoS Attack Volumes to Historic Highs

Currently, the modern internet is characterized by near-constant contention, in which defensive controls are being continuously tested against increasingly sophisticated adversaries. However, there are some instances where even experienced security teams are forced to rethink long-held assumptions about scale and resilience when an incident occurs. 

There has been an unprecedented peak of 31.4 terabits per second during a recent Distributed Denial of Service attack attributed to the Aisuru botnet, which has proven that the recent attack is firmly in that category. 
Besides marking a historical milestone, the event is revealing a sharp change in botnet orchestration, traffic amplification, and infrastructure abuse, demonstrating that threat actors are now capable of generating disruptions at levels previously thought to be theoretical.

As a consequence of this attack, critical questions are raised regarding the effectiveness of current mitigation architectures and the readiness of global networks to withstand such an attack.

Aisuru-Kimwolf is at the center of this escalation, a vast array of compromised systems that has rapidly developed into the most formidable DDoS platform to date.

Aisuru and its Kimwolf offshoot are estimated to have infected between one and four million hosts, consisting of a diverse array of consumer IoT devices, digital video recorders, enterprise network appliances, and virtual machines based i

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