A new distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that took place on Monday, September 12, has broken the previous record that Akamai recorded recently in July.
DDoS attacks are cyberattacks that flood servers with fake requests and garbage traffic, rendering them unavailable to legitimate visitors and customers.
The cybersecurity and cloud services company Akamai reports that the recent attack appears to originate from the same threat actor, meaning that the operators are in the process of empowering their swarm further.
The victim is also
the same as in July, an unnamed customer in Eastern Europe who has been “bombarded relentlessly” by the DDoS operatives all this time.
On September 12, these attacks culminated at unprecedented levels when the “garbage” traffic sent to the target network peaked at 704.8 Mpps, roughly 7% higher than the July attack.
Apart from the volume of the attack, the threat actors also expanded their targeting, which was previously rather narrow, focusing on the company’s primary data center.
This time, the threat actors spread their firepower to six data center locations in Europe and North America.
Additionally, Akamai detected and blocked 201 cumulative attacks, compared to 75 in July, and recorded traffic sources from 1813 IPs, compared to 512 previously.
