Microsoft has announced that its Azure system has repelled the largest DDoS attack in history. According to the statements made by the company, the attack targeting a European customer was carried out with 70,000 bots. Although these bots attacked with 2.4 TB packets per second, Azure managed to repel the attack.
US-based technology giant Microsoft, cloud-based system Azure largest DDoS attack in history He declared that he had succeeded. In the statements made by Amir Dahan, senior manager of Azure Networking, it comes in three waves and the highest 2.4TB per second It was stated that there were no problems with Azure systems during the repulsing of attacks. It was announced that other waves of the attack had capacities of 0.55 Tbps and 1.7 Tbps.
According to the statements made by Microsoft, the largest DDoS attack in history was primarily based in countries such as Malaysia, Taiwan, Vietnam, China and Japan, and the USA. In these countries approx. 70 thousand boots Although the security systems owned by Azure tried to take down the systems by launching the attack at the same time, the security systems of this attack to fail led to
Only one customer was the target of the DDoS attack
According to Microsoft’s statements, the attack took place in the last days of August. Interestingly, hackers use Microsoft Azure, not Microsoft Azure. European-based client they had targeted. Things like who that customer is, why the attack was made, as you can imagine. not disclosed.
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The previous record in the hacking world belonged to Amazon. Amazon Web Services (AWS) repelled a massive DDoS attack in February 2020. Hackers, that attack 2.3TB per secondThey did it with packages. AWS was able to successfully repel this attack. These events are known as relatively new technologies. cloud systems It shows how effective it is.
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