Cybersecurity firm Akamai successfully detected and prevented a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack targeting an unnamed, leading American financial institution on the Prolexic platform. The attack occurred on September 5, 2023 at approximately 19:31 UTC.
“Cybercriminals used a combination of ACK, PUSH, RESET, and SYN flood attack vectors, peaking at 633.7 gigabits per second (Gbps) and 55.1 million packets per second (Mpps). The attack was sharp but lasted for less than 2 minutes, and was proactively mitigated by our customer’s comprehensive cyberdefense posture.” reads the post published by Akamai.
During the attack, the top 10 sources for the targeted malicious traffic originated from Bulgaria, Brazil, China, India, United States, Thailand, Russia, Ukraine, Vietnam, and Japan. During the attack, the traffic from the US was more than double the volume of peacetime traffic originating from the country.
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