How The Largest European DDoS Attack Was Blocked
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Summary Of The Attack
- On July 21, 2022, Akamai detected and mitigated the largest DDoS attack up to this point, which has been launched against a publicly unknown Akamai European customer.
- The attack lasted over 14 hours and traffic was peaking at 853.7 Gbps and 659.6 Mpps which was targeting Akamai European customers.
- The most significant DDoS attack type was UDP flood in which a large number of UDP packets are sent to a target with the aim to overwhelm the target device’s ability to process and respond.
- Choose the proper DDoS solution, identify what assets should be protected, identify what business impact, and define the procedure and dedicated team to respond to the attack.
What Happened?
DDoS (Distributed Denial-of-Service) attacks became a real problem, especially for companies, government institutions, and similar organizational types.
As long there is an active internet connection, the threat of DDoS attacks is always present.
After the largest DDoS attack caused by the Mantis botnet attack in June 2022 mitigated by Cloudflare, on July 21, 2022, Akamai detected and mitigated the largest DDoS attack up to this point, which has been launched against a publicly unknown Akamai European customer.