How Media Reports Trigger Copycats
Vincent Ghiëtte, Christian Doerr · 2018
In late February 2018, news spread through the mainstream media about a massive distributed denial-of-service attack on the popular software collaboration website github.com. Estimated at a rate of 1.3 Terrabit per second, this massive packet flood was the largest DDoS attack by volume to date, surpassing previous records set by the first IoT-based DDoS attacks in 2017.