Security News > 2023 > March > Akamai mitigates record-breaking 900Gbps DDoS attack in Asia
Akamai reports having mitigated the largest DDoS attack ever launched against a customer based in the Asia-Pacific region.
DDoS is an attack that involves sending a large volume of garbage requests to a targeted server, depleting its capacity, and thus rendering the websites, applications, or other online services it hosts unreachable by legitimate users.
The record-breaking attack that Akamai mitigated recently unfolded on February 23, 2023, peaking at 900.1 gigabits per second and 158.2 million packets per second.
Akamai characterizes the attack as intense and short-lived, with its peak lasting for about one minute, which matches current trends in the DDoS space.
Akamai's highest mitigation was a DDoS attack on September 12, 2022, targeting a customer in Eastern Europe.
A recent case of this scale is a Cloudflare DDoS attack mitigation that targeted Wynncraft, one of Minecraft's largest servers and peaked at 2.5 Tbps..