{"id":47524,"date":"2022-07-15T02:28:01","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T02:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/meet-mantis-the-tiny-shrimp-that-launched-3000-ddos-attacks\/"},"modified":"2022-07-15T02:28:01","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T02:28:01","slug":"meet-mantis-the-tiny-shrimp-that-launched-3000-ddos-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/meet-mantis-the-tiny-shrimp-that-launched-3000-ddos-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Mantis, the tiny shrimp that launched 3,000 DDoS attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The botnet behind the largest-ever HTTPS-based distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is now named after a tiny shrimp.<\/p>\n<p>Cloudflare said it <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2022\/06\/14\/cloudflare-record-ddos-attack\/\" rel=\"noopener\">thwarted<\/a> the 26 million request per second (rpm) attack last month, and we&#8217;re told the biz has been tracking the botnet ever since. Now, the internet infrastructure company has given the botnet a name \u2014&nbsp;Mantis \u2014 and said it&#8217;s the next phase in the evolution of Meris.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The name Mantis was chosen to be similar to &#8216;Meris&#8217; to reflect its origin, and also because this evolution hits hard and fast,&#8221; Cloudflare Product Manager Omer Yoachimik <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.cloudflare.com\/mantis-botnet\/\">wrote<\/a> in a blog post this week. &#8220;Over the past few weeks, Mantis has been especially active directing its strengths towards almost 1,000 Cloudflare customers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"top\" data-raptor=\"condor\" data-xsm=\",fluid,mpu,\" data-sm=\",fluid,mpu,\" data-md=\",fluid,mpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/cybercrime&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=2&amp;c=2YtD5oZOqDoIBnEW24KALOgAAAMo&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/cybercrime&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=2&amp;c=2YtD5oZOqDoIBnEW24KALOgAAAMo&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p>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&#8217;s customers, Yoachimik added.<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"top\" data-raptor=\"falcon\" data-xmd=\",fluid,mpu,leaderboard,\" data-lg=\",fluid,mpu,leaderboard,\" data-xlg=\",fluid,billboard,superleaderboard,mpu,leaderboard,\" data-xxlg=\",fluid,billboard,superleaderboard,brandwidth,brandimpact,leaderboard,mpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/cybercrime&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=4&amp;c=44YtD5oZOqDoIBnEW24KALOgAAAMo&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/cybercrime&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=4&amp;c=44YtD5oZOqDoIBnEW24KALOgAAAMo&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D426raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<div class=\"adun_eagle_desktop_story_wrapper\">\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"mid\" data-raptor=\"eagle\" data-xxlg=\",mpu,dmpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/cybercrime&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=3&amp;c=33YtD5oZOqDoIBnEW24KALOgAAAMo&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/cybercrime&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=3&amp;c=33YtD5oZOqDoIBnEW24KALOgAAAMo&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In addition to sounding similar to Meris, Mantis is also a &#8220;small but powerful&#8221; shrimp. The tiny crustaceans are about only about 10 cm in length, but their &#8220;thumb-splitter&#8221; claws can inflict serious damage against prey or enemies \u2014 and can strike with a force of 1,500 newtons at speeds of 83 km\/h from a standing start.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, the Manis botnet operates a small fleet of bots (a little over 5,000), but uses them to cause massive damage: specifically, a record-breaking attack.<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"top\" data-raptor=\"falcon\" data-xsm=\",fluid,mpu,\" data-sm=\",fluid,mpu,\" data-md=\",fluid,mpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/cybercrime&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=4&amp;c=44YtD5oZOqDoIBnEW24KALOgAAAMo&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/cybercrime&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=4&amp;c=44YtD5oZOqDoIBnEW24KALOgAAAMo&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D426raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s an average of 5,200 HTTPS rps per bot,&#8221; Yoachimik explained. &#8220;Generating 26M HTTP requests is hard enough to do without the extra overhead of establishing a secure connection, but Mantis did it over HTTPS.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>These HTTPS-based attacks are more expensive than their HTTP counterparts because it costs more in compute resources to establish a secure TLS connection. And because of this, instead of using hijacked IoT devices (like DVRs or cameras) to form its bot army, Mantis uses virtual machines and servers.<\/p>\n<p>As the company&#8217;s security team has been following Mantis&#8217; targets, we&#8217;re told most of the attacks attempted to strike internet and telecommunications&#8217; firms, with 36 percent of attack share. News, media and publishing companies came in second, at about 15 percent, followed by gaming and finance with about 12 percent of attack share.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, most of the DDoS attacks&#8217; targets are based in the United States (more than 20 percent), with about 15 percent putting Russian-based companies in the crosshairs, and less than 5 percent targeting organizations in Turkey, France, Poland, Ukraine, the UK, Canada, China and other countries.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth noting that in April, just months before mitigating Mantis, Cloudflare said it stomped another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2022\/04\/28\/cloudflare-largest-ddos-attack-\/\">HTTPS DDoS attack<\/a> that reached a peak of 15.3 million rps. At the time it was the largest-ever on record.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" id=\"story_eagle_xsm_sm_md_xmd_lg_xlg\" data-pos=\"mid\" data-raptor=\"eagle\" data-xsm=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-sm=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-md=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-xmd=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-lg=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-xlg=\",mpu,dmpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/cybercrime&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=3&amp;c=33YtD5oZOqDoIBnEW24KALOgAAAMo&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/cybercrime&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=3&amp;c=33YtD5oZOqDoIBnEW24KALOgAAAMo&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p>These attacks are not only severely disruptive to business \u2014 by flooding the network with junk traffic, they effectively make it impossible for legitimate users to access an organization&#8217;s website \u2014 but they are also becoming more frequent, according to Cloudflare and other security firms&#8217; research.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cybersecurity outfit Kaspersky recently reported this type of assault was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2022\/04\/26\/kaspersky_ddos_up\/\">up 46 percent<\/a> year-over-year due, in large part, to DDoS attacks associated with Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine. \u00ae<\/p>\n<p> READ MORE <a href=\"https:\/\/go.theregister.com\/feed\/www.theregister.com\/2022\/07\/15\/mantis_botnet_ddos_attack\/\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch out for deadly pinchers after that record-breaking attack The botnet behind the largest-ever HTTPS-based distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is now named after a 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