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Home > Cybersecurity > Google stopped the largest DDNS attack ever in 2017

Google stopped the largest DDNS attack ever in 2017

Google revealed that in September 2017, they prevented the largest DDNS attack ever existed without any interruption to their service.


Seda Nur Cinar Seda Nur Cinar
October 19, 2020
2 min read
Google stopped the largest DDNS attack ever in 2017

The Google Cloud team revealed in their recent blog post that there has been a large scale DDOS attack on their system in September 2017, which was around 2.54 Tbps of traffic load generated by attackers. This number ranks the attack at the top of the list, dwarfing many other known and measured attacks. This first-place ranking is depending on the bandwidth of attacks as there have been measurements regarding packets per second and requests per second.

Target was not revealed

Another blog post/report on the same day (16th of October, 2020) from Google Threat Analysis Group claimed that the source of the attack back then has been from China, originated from some state-sponsored groups, and came from four Chinese internet service provider IP pools.

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On their two separate blog posts, Google details the attacks, emphasizing on their success in mitigation and ways of detecting and backtracking the threats after they occur. Google claims that distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks is growing exponentially and backs these claims with hard data. Google also discusses how different types of attack payloads (packets, requests, and bits) affect the services in general.

As many details have been shared on blog posts, Google did not reveal which system or systems have been targeted by that 2.54 Tbps DDOS attack. This is an understandable attitude, even when Google does not rely on security by obfuscation it is better not to reveal anything to the public on this matter and provide any data for possible social engineering.

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Seda Nur Cinar is the news editor of the Cloud7 News. With more than 8 years of Linux and cloud experience, Seda is a Linux and opensource enthusiast, security researcher and a web application developer.

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