Security News > 2022 > September > Akamai stopped new record-breaking DDoS attack in Europe
A new distributed denial-of-service attack that took place on Monday, September 12, has broken the previous record that Akamai recorded recently in July.
The cybersecurity and cloud services company Akamai reports that the recent attack appears to originate from the same threat actor, meaning that the operators are in the process of empowering their swarm further.
On September 12, these attacks culminated at unprecedented levels when the "Garbage" traffic sent to the target network peaked at 704.8 Mpps, roughly 7% higher than the July attack.
"The attackers' command and control system had no delay in activating the multidestination attack, which escalated in 60 seconds from 100 to 1,813 IPs active per minute," comments Akamai in the report.
"An attack this heavily distributed could drown an underprepared security team in alerts, making it difficult to assess the severity and scope of the intrusion, let alone fight the attack." - Akamai.
The particular company had taken precautions due to the July attack and had secured all their 12 datacenters, resulting in 99.8% of the malicious traffic being pre-mitigated.