Security News > 2022 > August > Akamai: We stopped record DDoS attack in Europe

Akamai Technologies squelched the largest-ever distributed denial-of-service attack in Europe earlier this month against a company that was being consistently hammered over a 30-day period.

The user datagram protocol was the most popular vector used in the attack and was seen in the record spikes.

In an attack, the traffic is routed via Akamai's Anycast network through the closest scrubbing center, where Akamai's Security Operations Command Center uses mitigation controls to stop the attack.

Kaspersky in April released a report saying that DDoS attacks hit an all-time high in the first quarter, jumping 46 percent quarter-over-quarter, with the number of targeted attacks increasing 81 percent.

Cloudflare - which in April warded off a record-setting HTTPS-based DDoS attack only to break that record by stomping on a larger attack two months later - similarly said in a report that in the first quarter, there was a 645 percent increase in DDoS attacks.

The flood of network traffic in June originated from cloud service providers rather than residential internet service providers, indicating the attackers had to hijack virtual machines to scale the attack rather than simpler Internet of Things devices and home gateways.

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