The story takes us back to 2017. Google reveals that in September 2017, the company’s infrastructure has absorbed a 2.5 Tbps distributed denial-of-service (DDoS), which was indeed the conclusion of a six-month campaign that utilized a multi-mode attack strategy. However, the company also divulged that despite the attackers simultaneously targeting thousands of its IPs in

hopes of slipping past the automated defences, the attack had no impact.

Google wrote in a blog post, “The attacker used several networks to spoof 167 Mpps (millions of packets per second) to 180,000 exposed CLDAP, DNS, and SMTP servers, which would then send large responses to us. This demonstrates the volumes a well-resourced attacker can achieve: This was four times larger than the record-breaking 623 Gbps attack from the Mirai botnet a year earlier. It remains the highest-bandwidth attack reported to date, leading to reduced confidence in the extrapolation.”

A DDoS attack is a malicious endeavour to interrupt the normal internet traffic of a targeted server, service or network by overwhelming the target or its surrounding infrastructure with a flood of Internet traffic. The DDoS-like attacks actually is capable of disrupting businesses of all sizes, leading to outages, and worse, loss of user trust.

“We recognize the scale of potential DDoS attacks can be daunting. Fortunately, by deploying Google Cloud Armor integrated into our Cloud Load Balancing service—which can scale to absorb massive DDoS attacks—you can protect services deployed in Google Cloud, other clouds, or on-premise from attacks. We recently announced Cloud Armor Managed Protection, which enables users to further simplify their deployments, manage costs, and reduce overall DDoS and application security risk,” Google further added.