Roskomnadzor specialists repelled 1,246 DDoS attacks in April. According to the agency, the maximum power of one of them reached 1.03 Tbit/s, and the speed was 88.55 million packets per second. These figures are close to the maximum for Russian backbone networks and comparable to the largest global incidents of recent years.
The telecommunications industry was primarily targeted. The largest number of incidents was recorded in the Central Federal District, where key communication nodes and data centers are concentrated. The longest attack lasted 5 days, 4 hours, and 54 minutes – such continuous pressure requires automatic traffic switching and load distribution between nodes.
The geography of the attacks confirms the cross-border nature of the threat. Sources included IP addresses registered in the USA, Brazil, the Netherlands, Germany, and France. Simultaneously with repelling DDoS attacks, specialists identified and eliminated 1,356 traffic routing violations by 318 organizations.