Security News > 2020 > October > Google Targeted in Record-Breaking 2.5 Tbps DDoS Attack in 2017
Google revealed last week that its infrastructure was targeted in a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service attack back in September 2017.
In terms of bits per second, Google spotted the largest attack in September 2017.
AWS reported this summer that a DDoS attack it mitigated in February 2020 peaked at 2.3 Tbps. When AWS disclosed the incident, it was considered the largest DDoS attack ever recorded, but apparently, bigger attacks were seen much earlier.
Google now says that the attack it observed in 2017 is still the "Highest-bandwidth attack reported to date."
The attack peaked at 2.7 Mrps. However, Google says it's also aware of a more recent attack, aimed at a Google Cloud customer, which peaked at 6 Mrps. Google has various tools and mechanisms designed to protect its customers against DDoS attack, but the company called on users and businesses to join the fight against such threats by ensuring that botnets cannot abuse their devices for attacks and, in the case of organizations, by analyzing attacks, reporting them to law enforcement, and sharing information with the community.
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