Akamai just blocked the biggest DDoS attack in the history.
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What is a DDoS Attack?
A DDoS attack is a type of denial of service (DoS) attack where a network of compromised systems are used to target a single device, application, or network to disable it from providing services to users.
The biggest DDoS Attack in History
Akamai just announced that they detected and blocked what may be one of the largest DDoS attack in the history of DDos Attacks in terms of packets per second.
Akamai added that they recieved and blocked a huge flood of packets recorded upto 809 Million packets per second.
Akamai could not identify the reason behind the attack (ie, to use the DDoS as a distraction) but the security team stated that the bank in question usually keeps facing these kind of DDoS attacks, so it might just be a new (and biggest) of a number of attempts to make the service offline.
What seemed weird to the Akamai researchers was how the attack started and ended (or was mitigated) such rapidly.
“The attack grew from normal traffic levels to 418Gbps in seconds, before reaching its peak size of 809Mpps in approximately two minutes,” Akamai said. “In total, the attack…