[ih] Microsoft Mitigated Record-Breaking 3.47 Tbps DDoS Attack on Azure Customers

[the keyboard of geoff goodfellow]

EXCERPT:

Microsoft this week revealed that it had fended off a record number of
distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks aimed at its customers in
2021, three of which surpassed 2.4 terabit per second (Tbps).

One of the DDoS attacks took place in November, targeting an unnamed Azure
customer in Asia and lasted a total of 15 minutes. It hit a peak throughput
of 3.47 Tbps and a packet rate of 340 million packets per second (pps),
making it the largest attack ever reported in history.

"This was a distributed attack originating from approximately 10,000
sources and from multiple countries across the globe, including the United
States, China, South Korea, Russia, Thailand, India, Vietnam, Iran,
Indonesia, and Taiwan," Alethea Toh, product manager of Azure Networking,
said
<https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-ddos-protection-2021-q3-and-q4-ddos-attack-trends/>
.

DDoS attacks occur when several compromised devices are employed as a
conduit to overwhelm a targeted server, service, or network with a flood of
internet traffic with the goal of overloading the systems and disrupting
its regular services...

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https://thehackernews.com/2022/01/microsoft-mitigated-record-breaking-347.html

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