New DDoS-package Spike is capable to do multi-vector attacks

With  the help of Spike was carried out the attack, the traffic  of which reached 215 Gbit / s.

 Akamai's specialists found a new package for the implementation of DDoS-attacks. Named as a Spike, the malware is coordinating the creation of large DDoS-botnets, infecting a wide range of devices with Internet access.

As the senior vice president of Akamai Scholl Stewart (Stuart Scholly) said, this summer, the company's specialists had

discovered a large-scale of multi-vector DDoS-attacks, carried out with the help of several botnets under Spike control. This DDoS-package is designed to build botnets of devices and platforms, which have not been used for such purposes. Scholl said about this in the security blank, published on the website of the subsidiary Akamai - Prolexic.

Not it is obvious that pike was used to carry out attacks on several sites in Asia and the United States. In one of them  was used a huge multi-vector network, generating traffic with a total of 215 Gb / s and the speed of 150 million packets per second.

Spike has a a wide arsenal to implement DDoS-attacks. The malware can load sites with infrastructure and applications, generate garbage traffic SYN, UDP and GET, and create unnecessary stress through DNS-queries. DDoS-package running on a PC running OS Windows, but is also capable of infecting Linux- and ARM-devices, which later become participants in a botnet. Note that the risk are even devices "Internet of Things".

Source: securitylab.ru