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Akamai on Thursday revealed that it mitigated a second record-setting distributed denial-of-service attack since the beginning of June, one that peaked at 809 MPPS. Earlier this month, the company shared details on the mitigation of a 1.44 TBPS DDoS assault that reached 385 MPPS at its peak, but the more recent incident, which happened on June 21, was more than double the size in terms of PPS. The attack, which lasted just over 10 minutes, reached 418 GBPS within seconds, and 809 MPPS in two minutes. Designed to overwhelm DDoS mitigation systems through a high PPS load, the attack involved the use of packets carrying 1 byte payloads, Akamai says.

Akamai reckons it blocked what may be the largest distributed denial-of-service attack ever, in terms of packets per second. The security team told The Register it is the largest such attack Akamai has ever encountered, let alone blocked, and the CDN believes that it is likely the largest DDoS attack to hit any network, in terms of packets per second.

There were seven major application DDoS attacks over the previous month - two of which lasted 5-6 days, Imperva reveals. Two of the attacks lasted five and six days consecutively - an unusual occurrence, as most DDoS attacks typically last less than 24 hours.

The distributed denial-of-service botnets named XORDDoS and Kaiji recently started targeting exposed Docker servers, Trend Micro warned on Monday. Trend Micro has recently spotted variants that also target Docker servers.

No financial firm is ever safe, especially as cybercriminals become more determined and sophisticated in their attack methods. Complexity and size of DDoS attacks have increasedThe complexity and size of DDoS attacks in 2019 has increased significantly compared to 2018.

There has been a shift in internet traffic patterns coinciding with an increase in DDoS and other types of network attacks in recent months as organizations across industries quickly transitioned to remote workforces and individuals under stay-at-home orders began relying on the internet more heavily, according to Neustar. The pandemic effect was clear in traffic to specific websites, such as the 250% increase in queries for a popular collaboration platform as lockdowns commenced and the sharp rise in traffic to the website of a N95 masks manufacturer.

The first week of June 2020 arrived with a massive 1.44 TBPS distributed denial of service attack, Akamai reveals. While typical DDoS attacks show geographically concentrated traffic, this assault was different, with the traffic being globally distributed.

Wireless carrier T-Mobile on Monday suffered a major outage in the United States that impacted service at other carriers as well, and it ended up being reported as a "Massive" distributed denial of service attack. Other carriers were also affected by the incident, but reportedly blamed the experienced technical issues on the outage impacting T-Mobile's network.

Rakhshan was sentenced to five years in federal prison and ordered to pay more than $520,000 in restitution. He admitted to conspiring to launch a DDoS attack in January 2015, targeting Leagle.com, a legal aggregation site that had published information about Rakhshan's prior criminal conviction in Canada, and which was hosted by a provider located in Dallas, Texas.

The complexity and size of DDoS attacks in 2019 has increased significantly compared to 2018. A report published by NaWas by NBIP concludes that despite the number of attacks has decreased slightly over 2019, their complexity and size has increased significantly.