Collaborate Disseminate
In our 2020 DDoS retrospective, we highlighted the twists and turns of a very, very active threat landscape. As a quick refresher, we mitigated some of the largest attacks ever seen (1.44 Tbps and 809 Mpps); Continue reading 2021: Volumetric DDoS Attacks Rising Fast
Never before has the risk of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack been higher. In 2020, we saw record-breaking attacks, a DDoS extortion campaign impacting thousands of organizations globally, more emergency customer turnups, and more Akamai customers attacked than any year on record — and we’ve been successfully fighting DDoS attacks since 2003! We also saw a big increase in attacks targeting verticals that haven’t seen as much activity of late, with 7 of 11 of the industries we track seeing peak attack counts in 2020. Continue reading PART I: Retrospective 2020: DDoS Was Back — Bigger and Badder Than Ever Before
Never before has the risk of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack been higher. In 2020, we saw record-breaking attacks, a DDoS extortion campaign impacting thousands of organizations globally, more emergency customer turnups, and more Akamai c… Continue reading Retrospective 2020: DDoS Risk Higher Than Ever
As we close out 2020, it should come as no surprise that Cyberweek (the week of Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday) proved big for DDoS attacks. Threat actors were out in force during this key shopping season, and they shifted their sights toward disrup… Continue reading Cyberweek 2020 Attracted Both Online Shoppers and DDoS Attackers
As we close out 2020, it should come as no surprise that Cyberweek (the week of Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday) proved big for DDoS attacks. Threat actors were out in force during this key shopping season, and they shifted their sights toward disrupting digital commerce-related industries. Continue reading Cyberweek 2020 Attracted Both Online Shoppers and DDoS Attackers
In terms of the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) landscape, 2020 was almost boring prior to the beginning of August. The excitement from the record peak Gbps and Mpps seen in early summer had worn off, and we weren’t seeing… Continue reading DDoS Extortion Examination
While we’ve highlighted both record PPS and BPS attacks mitigated on the Akamai Prolexic Platform over the past few weeks, these attacks are part of a broader trend of increasingly large and complex DDoS activity. We have seen clear indications across … Continue reading Large, Complex DDoS Attacks on the Rise in 2020
While we’ve highlighted both record PPS and BPS attacks mitigated on the Akamai Prolexic Platform over the past few weeks, these attacks are part of a broader trend of increasingly large and complex DDoS activity. Continue reading Large, Complex DDoS Attacks on the Rise in 2020
On June 21, 2020, Akamai mitigated the largest packet per second (PPS) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack ever recorded on the Akamai platform. The attack generated 809 million packets per second (Mpps), targeting a large European bank.
The po… Continue reading Largest Ever Recorded Packet Per Second-Based DDoS Attack Mitigated by Akamai
