Akamai: We stopped record DDoS attack in Europe

Akamai Technologies squelched the largest-ever distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in Europe earlier this month against a company that was being consistently hammered over a 30-day period. According to the cybersecurity and cloud services vendor, the height of the attack hit on July 21, when over a 14-hour period it …

[Martin J Hooper]

I Wonder if this had ripple effects... I couldn't play some youtube videos the past couple of days the player just hung trying to stream the vid...

[Twanky]

Perhaps your computer was too busy doing something else for someone else?

[Neil Barnes]

Same here - but only *some* videos. Others were fine.

[TimMaher]

Re:- “*some* videos”

Thought I’d donate you an icon for that one @Neil.

[b0llchit]

/.

The /. effect has evolved. When all devices are secured^(*) then we only have to worry about everybody wanting to see the same thing at the same time.

^(*)_{Yeah, that'll happen when hell freezes over and pigs fly and monday falls on a sunday, all at the same time.}

[Charlie Clark]

Re: /.

Is that the same date as when Brexit will be finally done?

[Lotaresco]

"Eastern Europe", Hmmmm

I'm left wondering if it was a "State Sponsored Botnet" that was responsible.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: "Eastern Europe", Hmmmm

And which State.

[Charlie Clark]

Re: "Eastern Europe", Hmmmm

With Russia the only difference between the state and the criminals is which wing of the Kremlin they use.

[adam 40]

Re: "Eastern Europe", Hmmmm

"Meris was responsible for an attack in September 2021 against giant Russian tech company Yandex."

Russians attacking Russians? Maybe it was just a trial run, to see if it was effective?

[Charlie Clark]

Re: "Eastern Europe", Hmmmm

Who knows? Maybe it was just about keeping Yandex in line.

[Anonymous Coward]

Correct me if I'm wrong

If a DDoS attack used a botnet, and that attack was repeated over the course of a month, why in hell hasn't Akamai reported those source addresses to the ISPs?