Microsoft stopped the largest DDoS attack ever reported Hackers are using fake WordPress DDoS pages to launch malwareĮurope just suffered its worst DDoS attack ever, but we don’t know whyĬloudflare just stopped one of the largest DDoS attacks ever Hackers used 30,000 computers for record-breaking DDoS attack Akamai itself managed to stop a massive attack on a target in Eastern Europe that reached 659.6Mpps. While this was the largest attack on a target in the APAC region, there have been plenty of other DDoS attempts that were successfully mitigated in recent months.

Ultimately, Akamai used all of its 26 centers to block this unprecedented attack. The majority of the traffic ended up in Akamai’s centers located in Tokyo, Osaka, Hong Kong, Singapore, and São Paulo. To block the attack, Akamai used a scrubbing network, which is a protective network that takes over the incoming traffic in order to defend the target of a DDoS attack. The peak only lasted for about a minute and the whole duration seems to have been around an hour.Īkamai reports that it was able to mitigate the attack completely. It peaked at a massive 900.1Gbps (gigabits per second) and 158.2Mpps (million packets per second). The attack took place on February 23, 2023.

According to Bleeping Computer, this was the largest such DDoS attack made against a customer based in the Asia-Pacific region. This time, we don’t know how many different IP addresses were used to overwhelm the target server, but we do know that the number of requests per second was record-breaking. Hackers just launched the largest HTTPS DDoS attack in history Google just thwarted the largest HTTPS DDoS attack in history This huge DDoS attack was one of the longest ever recorded

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