DISC InfoSec blog

Akamai reported that on February 23, 2023, at 10:22 UTC, it mitigated the largest DDoS attack ever. The attack traffic peaked at 900.1 gigabits per second and 158.2 million packets per second. The record-breaking DDoS was launched against a Prolexic customer in Asia-Pacific (APAC). “On February 23, 2023, at 10:22 UTC, Akamai mitigated the largest DDoS attack ever launched against […]

On Monday, 12th September 2022, cybersecurity firm Akamai mitigated a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS Attack), which has been declared a record-breaking attack in terms of packets-per-second compared to the attack Akamai recorded in July. For your information, cybercriminals bombard servers with fake requests and traffic to prevent legit visitors from accessing their services […]