Akamai claims to have mitigated the largest DDoS attack to ever an Asia-Pacific organization.
The cyberattack peaked at 900.1 gigabits per second.
- This attack happened on Feb. 23, 2023.
- The company stated that the peak of the cyberattack lasted one minute, reaching 158.2 million packets per second.
- Akamai
redirected the malicious traffic to its multiple network centers
located in Tokyo, Singapore, São Paulo, Hong Kong, and Osaka.
- According
to the Japanese internet company, users were not affected by the DDoS
attack and were able to use its services regularly.
- Akamai has mitigated even larger DDoS attacks in the past. On Sept. 12, 2022, the company mitigated an attack that peaked at 704 million packets per second.
- In 2021, Microsoft protected a client in Asia from being cyberattacked with a 3.47 Tbps DDoS attack, which is the largest ever tracked DDoS campaign.
