A new DDoS attack manages to break all records and becomes the largest in the history of Europe, surpassing that of last week.
Today we have found ourselves with a great bombardment from the hands of Akamai, which claims to have mitigated an 853.7 Gbps (gigabits per second) and 659.6 Mpps (million packets per second) attack against an Eastern European company.
Let’s remember another record that belongs to Microsoft’s Azure DDoS Protection team, who stopped the largest denial of service attack in internet history in November 2021: a torrent of junk data with a throughput of 3.47 terabytes per second.
The DDoS record came from more than 10,000 sources located in at least 10 countries around the world. The attack targeted an unidentified Azure customer in Asia and lasted about two minutes, the company explains.
As for the one we refer to in this article, the affected company is unknown for security reasons but the origin is known, Eastern Europe, so experts say that it has a lot to do with the war that is currently taking place in Ukraine.
Regarding these types of attacks To the Ukrainian people, in June this year we already reported that the Russian hacker group Sandworm used Follina to attack various media organizations in Ukraine, including radio stations and newspapers. The modus operandi was based on the launch of a malicious email campaign.
Akamai now claims that the particular target has been under a barrage of DDoS attacks in the last 30 days, with this specific and record-breaking attack that occurred on July 21.
This company claims that DDoS attacks originated from a “highly sophisticated global botnet” of infected devices. Botnets are becoming more powerfulas threat actors manage to compromise servers, data centers, and virtual machines.
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