On October 16th , the Google Cloud team revealed a DDoS attack that targeted the Google service in September 2017. Having reached 2.54 Tbps, this is the largest DDoS attack recorded to date.

Researchers at Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) claim that this attack came from China, as it originated from the network of four Chinese Internet Service Providers (ASN 4134, 4837, 58453 and 9394).

 

Google Cloud reliability and security engineer Damian Menscher says the spike was the "culmination of a six-month campaign" that used multiple attack methods to hammer Google's server infrastructure. "The attacker used multiple networks to spoof 167 Mp/s (millions of packets per second) from 180,000 exposed CLDAP, DNS and SMTP servers, which then sent us significant responses".

 

Google revealed the incident last week for various reasons. Firstly, to raise awareness of the growing trend of state-sponsored groups of cyber attackers. But also to warn that DDoS attacks will intensify in the coming years as the bandwidth available to the Internet increases.

 

 

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Source : ZDNet