There are DDoS attacks, then there's this 809 million packet-per-second tsunami Akamai says it just caught

There are DDoS attacks, then there's this 809 million packet-per-second tsunami Akamai says it just caught

Akamai reckons it blocked what may be the largest distributed denial-of-service attack ever, in terms of packets per second.


The content delivery network today said it successfully warded off the mammoth traffic flood, even as it was hit with a peak load of 809 million packets per second (PPS).


The attack, which began on 21 June, was directed at an unspecified European bank. The security team told The Register it is the largest such attack Akamai has ever encountered, let alone blocked, and the CDN believes that it is likely the largest DDoS attack to hit any network, in terms of packets per second.


"We believe this is a new industry record for PPS-focused attacks, and well over double the size of the previous high-water mark on the Akamai platform, just one ..

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