Akamai Reports 704.8 Mpps DDoS Attack in Eastern Europe
Akamai researchers say they detected and mitigated a record-setting distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against an unnamed customer in Eastern Europe. The attack peaked at 704.8 million packets-per-second (Mpps). Akamai says that this attack was the work of the same group of cybercriminals that launched a 659.6 Mpps attack in July against the same customer. Note …