Google says it mitigated a 2.54 Tbps DDoS attack in 2017, largest known to date


The Google Cloud team revealed today a previously undisclosed DDoS attack that targeted Google service back in September 2017 and which clocked at 2.54 Tbps, making it the largest DDoS attack recorded to date.

Damian Menscher, a Security Reliability Engineer for Google Cloud, said the 2.54 Tbps peak was “the culmination of a six-month campaign” that utilized multiple methods of attacks to hammer Google’s server infrastructure.

Menscher didn’t reveal which services were targeted.was carried out by a state-sponsored threat actor.

Read more…
Source: ZDNet