Security News > 2020 > June > 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 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 week after Akamai announced another massive DDoS attack," Akamai said in its report on the digital tsunami.

"Looking holistically at DDoS activity since the onset of 2020, it is clear that large, sophisticated DDoS attacks are still a significant attack vector."

For what it's worth, Amazon Web Services claimed in May it mitigated a 2.3Tbps flood against a target, though Akamai claims it stopped a larger attack, in terms of packets per second.

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