World's largest publicly revealed distributed denial of service attack
Geoff Slocombe · Asia-Pacific defence reporter · 2018
At 17:28 GMT, February 28th, 2018 (4:28 AEDT, March 1st) Akamai, a global leader in Content Delivery Network services which make the Internet fast, reliable and secure for its customers, experienced a 1.3 Tbps DDoS attack against one of their customers, a software development company called GitHub, driven by memcached reflection and amplification.