Last week, the largest DDoS attack in history occurred, exceeding the previous one by 20%

Today we came under heavy bombardment from the hands of Akamai, which claims to have mitigated an 853.7 Gbps (gigabit per second) and 659.6 Mbps (million packets per second) attack against an Eastern European company.

Let’s remember another record held by the Microsoft Azure DDoS Protection team, which in November 2021 stopped the largest denial-of-service attack in the history of the Internet: a stream of unnecessary data with a throughput of 3.47 terabytes per second.

The DDoS recording came from over 10,000 sources located in at least 10 countries around the world. The attack targeted an unidentified Azure customer in Asia and lasted about two minutes, the company explains.

As for the one we refer to in this article, the affected company is unknown for security reasons, but the origin is known, Eastern Europe, so experts say that this is largely due to the war that is now going on in Ukraine.

As for this type of attack on the Ukrainian people, we already reported in June of this year that the Russian hacker group Sandworm used Follina to attack various media organizations in Ukraine, including radio stations and newspapers. The method of operation was based on launching a malicious email campaign.

Akamai now claims that the specific target has been subjected to a flurry of DDoS attacks over the past 30 days. with this particular and record-breaking attack that took place on July 21st.

The company claims that the DDoS attacks originated from a “highly sophisticated global botnet” of infected devices. Botnets are getting more powerfulbecause attackers manage to compromise servers, data centers and virtual machines.