Security News > 2022 > July > Akamai blocked largest DDoS in Europe against one of its customers
The largest distributed denial-of-service attack that Europe has ever seen occurred earlier this month and hit an organization in Eastern Europe.
DDoS incidents have become more frequent since the start of the year as attackers try to deny access to the victim's digital services by flooding them with requests and traffic to overwhelm resources and render them unavailable.
In a report this week, Akamai notes that the record-breaking attack occurred on July 21 and in 14 hours it peaked at 853.7 Gbps and 659.6 Mpps. The company did not disclose any details about its customer but said that it was able to mitigate the attack and said that it targeted several IP addresses and that its client was the target of 75 DDoS incidents over the past 30 days.
Powerful botnets capable of record-breaking DDoS attacks have been in the news recently.
Last September, the Mēris botnet was responsible for hitting Russian internet giant Yandex with 21.8 million RPS. In June, cloud services company Cloudflare mitigated a DDoS attack from Mantis botnet that peaked at 26 million RPS, making it the most powerful one to date.
DDoS incidents in Eastern Europe have taken a political tint as they are frequently used as a form of hacktivism.