Security News > 2022 > September > Eastern European org hit by second record-smashing DDoS attack

Akamai says it has absorbed the largest-ever publicly known distributed denial of service attack - an assault against an unfortunate Eastern European organization that went beyond 700 million packets per second.

For comparison, the July attack peaked at 659.6 Mpps with the organization coming under attack 75 times at its primary data center.

The packets were primarily UDP in both incidents, and while the July attack targeted 512 IP addresses, the September attack went after 1,813 in total, it's said.

As Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine continues, it is clear Russian teams do enjoy a DDoS attack against their enemy governments and corporations.

Google said it blocked the largest ever HTTPS-based DDoS attack in June, which peaked at 46 million requests per second.

This, the cloud giant noted, was about 76 percent larger than the previous record DDoS attack that Cloudflare thwarted earlier that same month.

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