Security News > 2023 > September > Huge DDoS attack against US financial institution thwarted
Akamai says it thwarted a major distributed denial-of-service attack aimed at a US bank that peaked at 55.1 million packets per second earlier this month.
The network traffic flood hit on September 5 against the unnamed finance giant Akamai describes as "One of the biggest and most influential US financial institutions."
A year ago, Akamai nipped a record-breaking DDoS attack against one of its European customers.
More recently, in February 2023, Akamai said it blocked the largest DDoS attack against one of its Asia-Pacific customers.
This most recent attack marks the largest yet against a US financial firm, we're told.
"In fact, over the past four quarters, more than 30 percent of the DDoS attacks have been aimed at financial services companies," they added.
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