Akamai has mitigated the largest DDoS attack ever launched against a Prolexic customer based in Asia-Pacific (APAC), with attack traffic peaking at 900.1 gigabits per second and 158.2 million packets per second.
Akamai said the attack was intense and short-lived, with most attack traffic bursting during the peak minute of the attack. Traffic patterns returned to normal after only a few minutes
“The attack was distributed across our scrubbing network but was most heavily sourced from APAC (Figure 2). No individual scrubbing center saw more than 12% of the total traffic, with the top locations being Hong Kong, Tokyo, São Paulo, Singapore, and Osaka. Forty-eight percent of traffic was in-region. All 26 of our ever-expanding fleet of scrubbing centers saw some amount of attack traffic.”
Akamai says that the impacted customer experienced no direct or collateral damage, and their services weren’t rendered inaccessible to legitimate customers.
