Security News > 2022 > January > Microsoft Mitigated Record-Breaking 3.47 Tbps DDoS Attack on Azure Customers
Microsoft this week revealed that it had fended off a record number of distributed denial-of-service attacks aimed at its customers in 2021, three of which surpassed 2.4 terabit per second.
One of the DDoS attacks took place in November, targeting an unnamed Azure customer in Asia and lasted a total of 15 minutes.
It hit a peak throughput of 3.47 Tbps and a packet rate of 340 million packets per second, making it the largest attack ever reported in history.
The first of the attacks was a 3.25 Tbps UDP attack, while the other intrusion was a 2.55 Tbps UDP flood that lingered for just a little over five minutes.
The report comes more than three months after the tech giant disclosed it acted to blunt a 2.4 Tbps DDoS attack in August 2021 targeting a European customer.
Other previous record-breaking attacks include a 2.5 Tbps DDoS attack absorbed by Google in September 2017 and a volumetric strike aimed at Amazon Web Services in February 2020.
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