The recently observed assaults haven’t reached the magnitude of the largest DDoS attacks the company has mitigated to date, which have peaked at 1.35 Tbps in 2018 and at 1.44 Tbps in 2020, but three of them are among the six biggest volumetric DDoS attacks Akamai has ever encountered.

Akamai says the increased number of bigger volumetric DDoS attacks is, in fact, the new norm. Since the beginning of the year, the company has already observed more attacks peaking at over 50 Gbps than during the entire 2019.