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by nitinics 4111 days ago
You should trace the attackers by tracing back. Work with your upstream providers and mailing lists (NANOG) and publicly shame these attackers. Likely, they are spoofing addresses - validate that and make sure you let the network know where the spoofed traffic is sourcing from to follow BCP38 and BCP84, defined by RFCs 2827 and 3704.
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Assuming it is direct spoofed traffic and not a reflection, naming and shaming will accomplish nothing. Names of the big ISPs allowing this are not a secret.
Transit providers do not care. They make money on it, some people are using it legitimately, and they just don't care, for the most part. It's a well known problem. It might not hurt to mention it, but they know what they're doing.