"Akamai Mitigates Record-Breaking 900Gbps DDoS Attack in Asia"

Akamai mitigated the largest Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack ever launched against a customer in the Asia-Pacific region. DDoS is an attack that delivers a high volume of garbage requests to a targeted server, therefore depleting its capacity and preventing legitimate users from accessing the websites, applications, or other online services it hosts. The record-breaking attack mitigated by Akamai peaked at 900.1 gigabits per second and 158.2 million packets per second on February 23, 2023. According to Akamai, the attack was powerful and brief, with its peak lasting approximately one minute, which is consistent with current patterns in DDoS attacks. The company handled the attack by redirecting garbage traffic to its scrubbing network, most of which ended up in centers in Hong Kong, Tokyo, So Paulo, Singapore, and Osaka. A scrubbing network is a DDoS mitigation technique that uses a distributed infrastructure with multiple strategically located centers to filter incoming traffic and delete unwanted requests from the target's network. This article continues to discuss the record-breaking DDoS attack recently mitigated by Akamai and other record-holding DDoS attacks. 

Bleeping Computer reports "Akamai Mitigates Record-Breaking 900Gbps DDoS Attack in Asia"