Largest reported DDoS attacks mitigated
The largest ever reported Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) occurred in early March 2018, according to Netscout Arbor. A peak of 1.7 Terabits per second (Tbps) was recorded, although the attack was mitigated. This followed a recent attack against GitHub on 28 February, with a peak of 1.35 Tbps. The largest known attack previously took place in 2016 against the US DNS provider DYN, which peaked at 1.2 Tbps.
The method used for these attacks is…
Link: Weekly Threat Report 9th March 2018
Source: NCSC Reports
