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Microsoft has experienced a record-breaking 3.47 terabits per second (Tbps) distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on its Azure servers in Asia.
According to Azure Networking product manager Alethea Toh, an unnamed Azure user in Asia was targeted with a DDoS attack in November with a throughput of 3.47 Tbps and a packet rate of 340 million packets per second.
The attack originated from roughly 10,000 sources across the globe, including China, South Korea, Russia, Iran, and Taiwan, lasting for 15 minutes. However, it is not the first one of such gigantic scale, as there were two additional assaults, one of 3.25 Tbps and another of 2.55 Tbps in December in Asia.
“In November, Microsoft mitigated a DDoS attack with a throughput of 3.47 Tbps and a packet rate of 340 million packets per second (pps), targeting an Azure customer in Asia. We believe this to be the largest attack ever reported in history,” said Alethea Toh. “This was a distributed attack originating from approximately 10,000 sources and from multiple countries across the globe, including the United States, China, South Korea, Russia, Thailand, India, Vietnam, Iran, Indonesia, and Taiwan.”
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