Akamai\u2019s Q2 2015 State of the Internet Security Report is due soon, and\u00a0the company has started releasing information regarding DDoS attacks during this period.<\/p>\n
Akamai found that around\u00a0half of all DDoS attacks it mitigated used two or more attack vectors.<\/p>\n
One combination of vectors has appeared repeatedly in attacks greater than 100Gbps: the use of SYN and UDP vectors with extra data padding.<\/p>\n
\u201cAn extremely large attack of SYN and UDP vectors was used again in Q2 2015 – this time with the addition of an ACK flood,\u201d said Akamai.<\/p>\n
The attack described here reached a peak of 245Gbps and a peak packet per second rate of 46Mpps (Million packets per second).<\/p>\n
Akamai said that multi-vector SYN and UDP attacks continue to produce some of the largest bandwidth DDoS attacks.<\/p>\n
\u201cRegardless of how SYN and ACK are handled by a server or a firewall, these distributed attacks are likely to overwhelm the target network.”<\/p>\n
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