"Unprecedented DDoS Attack in June Originated From Mantis Botnet"

The source of June's record-breaking Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack was a new botnet called Mantis, which is now considered the most powerful botnet to date. The highest rate of the attack was 26 million requests per second, coming from 5,067 different devices. The previous record holder was the Meris botnet, which had an operation that peaked at 21.8 million requests per second. Cloudflare, a DDoS mitigation company, has been tracking Mantis botnet attacks on thousands of its customers. In a recently released report, Cloudflare reveals that despite using a small number of devices, the Mantis botnet is highly effective. Most botnets require a large number of linked devices to be compromised in order to amass enough strength to launch disruptive cyberattacks on protected targets. Mantis targets are primarily servers and virtual machines as they have significantly more resources. Multiple HTTPS requests require a lot of resources, so the more powerful the devices that make up the botnet swarm, the more devastating the DDoS attacks they can carry out. Meris, the previous record holder, performed highly aggressive attacks employing powerful hardware-equipped MikroTik devices. This article continues to discuss the strength, resources, and targets of the Mantis botnet. 

CyberIntelMag reports "Unprecedented DDoS Attack in June Originated From Mantis Botnet"