The 2.5Tbps attack was likely the work of state-sponsored hackers using internet service providers in China, according to Google.
(Credit: Pixabay) Google is reporting that a state-sponsored hacking group launched the biggest DDoS attack on record against the company back in Sept.2017. On Friday, Google’s cloud business disclosed the incident, which involved bombarding the company’s internet networks with a flood of traffic. The DDoS attack lasted over a six-month campaign, peaking to 2.5Tbps in traffic. The figure surpasses the 2.3Tbps assault Amazon’s cloud business AWS experienced this past February, which was previously thought to be the biggest DDoS attack on record. According to Google’s security team, the 2.5Tbps DDoS against the company was sourced back to a government-backed group that harnessed four internet service providers in China to send the flood of traffic.
