Microsoft has faced one of the biggest hacker attacks in history

Massive hacking attacks on large Internet and software companies are not uncommon. According to the portal TheVerge recently the American giant Microsoft it even faced the largest DDoS attack in its history. And successfully.

The DDoS attack on Microsoft Azure servers was the second largest in history

The attack took place in August and targeted European customers of Microsoft Azure cloud services. During the DDoS attack, hackers tried to overload servers with multiple pulses at short intervals. The largest was the first and had a value of 2.4 Tbps. This is 140% more than during the previous biggest attack on Microsoft’s servers in 2020.

The attack lasted 10 minutes around half past two in the afternoon. The attacks were conducted from more than 70,000 sources in the Asia-Pacific region, including Malaysia, Vietnam, Taiwan, Japan and China. The good news is that Azure servers were able to stay online throughout the attack, thanks to their ability to absorb dozens of terabit DDoS attacks per second. .

Of course, similar attacks do not avoid competition from Microsoft. Last year, Amazon faced a DDoS attack of up to 2.3 Tbps. The American internet giant Google will experience a large DDoS attack in 2017, with a value of 2.54 Tbps, which is the most massive recorded DDoS attack so far.