Security News > 2020 > June > Akamai, Amazon Mitigate Massive DDoS Attacks
The first week of June 2020 arrived with a massive 1.44 TBPS distributed denial of service attack, Akamai reveals.
While typical DDoS attacks show geographically concentrated traffic, this assault was different, with the traffic being globally distributed.
Most of the DDoS attacks observed over the past several quarters were smaller ones, recent reports from Cloudflare and Amazon show.
"From Q2 2018 to Q4 2019, the largest attacks observed on AWS were less than 1 TBPS," Amazon says.
"As botnets continue to exploit issues within networking products and IoT devices exposed to the internet, the risks of DDoS attacks will persist. Even with services to absorb the heavy blows dealt by high volume DDoS attacks, organizations often find that systems behave in unexpected ways under extreme load.".