Mēris Botnet Breaks DDoS Record

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For the last month, a new distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet has been attacking the Russian internet company Yandex. The attack peaked at an unparalleled rate of 21.8 million requests per second. Mēris is the name given to the botnet, which derives its power from tens of thousands of hacked machines, estimated to be the most […]

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