Google Faced the Largest DDoS Attack Seen Yet from Chinese State-backed Hackers in 2017

Google on Friday revealed that a “state- Explaining the DDoS or distributed denial of service attack, the company said that the hacker hopes to disrupt their victim’s service with a flood of useless traffic. While this attack doesn’t expose user data or doesn’t lead to a compromise, it can result in an outage and loss of user trust if not “quickly mitigated.” Hackers also use different methods of channelising this attack and even provide them with “fancy names” such as Smurf, Tsunami, XMAS tree, HULK, Slowloris, cache bust, TCP amplification, and more. To prevent servers from the DDoS attacks, Google claimed that given the data and observed trends, it could “extrapolate to determine the spare capacity needed to absorb the largest attacks likely to occur.” Its Cloud team further speculates that the number of DDoS attacks in future will increase as there is a surge in Internet usage. “We recently announced Cloud Armor Managed Protection, which enables users to further simplify their deployments, manage costs, and reduce overall DDoS and application security risk,” it said. Earlier this year, Amazon Web Services said that the company mitigated DDoS attack clocked at 2.3Tbps – making it the largest DDoS attack at the time.