Akamai says it thwarted a major distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack aimed at a US bank that peaked at 55.1 million packets per second earlier this month. The network traffic flood hit on September 5 against the unnamed finance giant Akamai describes as “one of the biggest and most influential US financial institutions.”  While it only lasted less than two minutes, it managed to spike to 633.7 gigabits per second with criminals using ACK, PUSH, RESET, and SYN flood attack vectors, according to the cloud services company’s Craig Sparling and Sandeep Rath.

Source: The Register