The DDoS attack on the bank was mitigated by Akamai.
Recently, Hackread.com reported how AWS Shield mitigated the largest ever recorded DDoS attack of 2.3Tbps to smash the earlier record of 1.7 Tbps. Now, the networking and security firm Akamai claims to have mitigated the largest ever DDoS attack in terms of packets-per-second.
The attack was launched against an unnamed, mainstream European bank and was recorded at 809 Mpps (million packets-per-second). The DDoS attack or distributed denial of service attack was carried out on June 21, 2020.
See: Owner of DDoS mitigation firm launched DDoS attacks on others
It is worth noting that the nature of DDoS attack recorded by AWS is different from the one blocked by Akamai. According to Akamai, this attack is double the size of the largest attack the company had mitigated previously, whereas the AWS attack was 44% of the attack earlier recorded to be the largest ever.
Moreover, this attack is unique because of the humongous spike in the number of source IP addresses. This indicates that the attack was “highly distributed” in nature as the company noted 600 times higher number of source IPs in comparison to the number of normally registered traffic directed to the target destination.
Furthermore, a majority of the attack traffic was sourced from unique IPs (almost 96.2% were unique), as researchers haven’t noted ..
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