Microsoft repelled the most powerful cyberattack in the history of the Internet

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Microsoft has repelled the most powerful DDoS attack to date on users of the Azure cloud platform.

Source: delo.ua

According to the corporation's report, the power of the DDoS attack was 3.47 terabits per second (Tbps).

The DDoS attack was carried out in November 2021, and Microsoft Azure called it the most powerful in the history of the Internet.

Attack vectors are UDP bandwidth saturation -packets to port 80 using Service Discovery Protocol (SSDP), Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (CLDAP), Domain Name System (DNS), and Network Time Protocol (NTP).

In total, in 2021, the company repelled 611,657 unique cyber attacks: 251,944 in the first half of the year and 40% more – 359,713 – in the second.

Most of these incidents occurred on May 10 and August 10 — 2,043 and 4,296, respectively.

The Ministry of Digital Transformation has officially stated that «all evidence points to the fact that Russia is behind the largest cyberattack in 4 years on the websites of Ukrainian government agencies»

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