The Russian tech giant Yandex said this week that in August and September it was hit with the internet’s largest-ever recorded distributed denial-of-service or DDoS attack. The flood of junk traffic, meant to overwhelm systems and take them down, peaked on September 5, but Yandex successfully defended against even that largest barrage. “Our experts did manage to repel a record attack of nearly 22 million requests per second,” the company said in a statement. “This is the biggest known attack in the history of the internet.”
Security News This Week: The Biggest DDoS Attack in History Hit Russian Tech Giant Yandex
