That is, the record for DDoS attacks has once again been broken. It is also worth noting that the incident described by Google surpasses even the attack on Amazon that occurred in February of this 2020, the capacity of which was 2.3 TB/sec. This demonstrates the scale that well-resourced criminals can achieve: four times the record 623 GB/s attack carried out by the Mirai botnet a year earlier ”, - wrote Google engineers. “Attackers used multiple networks to spoof 167,000,000 packets per second into 180,000 open CLDAP, DNS and SMTP servers, which then sent huge responses to us. It was not reported which services the hackers were targeting.
The researchers write that 2.54 TB/sec was the culmination of a six-month long campaign against Google, during which attackers used various attack methods and tried to undermine the company’s server infrastructure. Soon, analysts from the Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) published their report on the incident, in which they said that “government hackers” were responsible for the attack.Īccording to TAG, the attack came from China, from the networks of four specific providers: ASN 4134, 4837, 58453, and 9394. This week, the Google Cloud team talked about a previously unknown DDoS attack that targeted a Google service back in September 2017 and peaked at 2.54 TB/sec, making it the most powerful recorded attack in history.
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