Meet Mantis, the tiny shrimp that launched 3,000 DDoS attacks
The botnet behind the largest-ever HTTPS-based distributed-denial-of-service attack is now named after a tiny shrimp.the 26 million request per second attack last month, and we're told the biz has been tracking the botnet ever since. Now, the internet infrastructure company has given the botnet a name — Mantis — and said it's the next phase in the evolution of Meris.
While Mantis initially launched its network-flooding-traffic attack over HTTPS, in the month since its discovery, Mantis has launched more than 3,000 HTTP DDoS attacks against the firm's customers, Yoachimik added. Likewise, the Manis botnet operates a small fleet of bots , but uses them to cause massive damage: specifically, a record-breaking attack.
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