WordPress.com DDoS attack details
Published March 7th, 2011 | categories include: Headline, Images, Informational, Uncategorized |
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WordPress.com experienced a series of fairly large Distributed Denial of Service (ddos) attacks recently. Beginning on 0210, March 3, 2011 and concluded on March 4, 2011. The initial 5 attacks were TCP floods, while the sixth attack was aimed at HTTP resource consumption. The graphs below show both the packets per second and bits per second, with variable colors indicating source IP ranges. The attack ranged in the 4-6GB/s range. While not the largest attack WordPress has seen, it certainly ranks high on the list.
packets per second during the six attacks
bits per second during the 6 attacks
Despite media reports, the attack was not aimed at a large group of hosted sites. Rather, it was aimed at only one. That site has not been named. Most of the traffic shown above was from China.
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