Seven
German
airports
have
had
their
websites
targeted
by
a
suspected
distributed
denial
of
service
(DDoS)
attack.
The
attack,
which
took
place
on
February
16,
saw
the
websites
of
airports
including
Dortmund,
Nuremburg
and
Dusseldorf
taken
offline.
Larger
German
airports,
including
Munich,
Berlin
and
Frankfurt
were
not
targeted
in
the
attack.
In
a
statement,
the
chief
executive
of
Germain
airport
association,
Flughafenverband
ADV
said
“once
again,
airports
fell
victim
to
large-scale
DDoS
attacks,”
but
added
that
“according
to
the
information
we
have
so
far,
other
systems
are
not
affected”.
What
is
a
DDoS
attack?
Distributed
denial
of
service
attacks,
or
DDoS
attacks,
see
malicious
actors
attempt
to
disrupt
a
site
by
overwhelming
it
or
its
infrastructure
with
a
large
amount
of
internet
traffic.
As
DDoS
attacks
overwhelm
a
site’s
bandwidth,
this
prevents
users
from
accessing
the
site.
On
June
1,
2022,
Google
reported
that
it
had
blocked
the
“largest”
distributed
denial
of
service
(DDoS)
attack
on
record,
which
had
a
peak
of
46
million
requests
per
second
(rps).
The
attack
targeted
a
Google
Cloud
Armor
user
with
HTTPS
for
a
duration
of
69
minutes
and
had
5,256
source
IPs
from
132
countries
contributing
to
it.
Google
reported
that
the
attack
was
the
biggest
Layer
7
DDoS
attack
reported
to
date
and
was
76
percent
larger
than
the
previous
record.
In
a
blog
post
about
the
attack,
Emil
Kiner,
senior
product
manager
for
Cloud
Armor,
and
Satya
Konduru,
technical
lead,
both
at
Google,
noted
that
the
attack
was
akin
to
“receiving
all
the
daily
requests
to
Wikipedia…in
just
10
seconds”.
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