RASCOM thwarted massive DDoS attack

RASCOM specialists thwarted DDoS attack and protected its own infrastructure as well as customers’ traffic. It allowed maintaining the consistent operation of the services and ensuring continuous operation of sites. Let us guide you through the details.

On September 18 RASCOM specialists detected a global attack on their network. The traffic, that had not been bounded to any region or state, reached a throughput of 228 Gbps. The attack that involved botnets lasted for several hours and was targeted at overload of the company’s network nodes.

Prompt and expedite reaction allowed securing the network and protect the traffic of the company’s customers. The incident on 18 September showed under real-life conditions the effective strength of the traffic filtering solutions and attack mitigation.

Present-day attacks become more large-scale and effective; therefore, the countermeasures require cooperation with trusted providers of protected solutions which have experience and competence in repelling bot activity. In 2024 more than a third of all the reported DDoS attacks were directed at infrastructure of telecommunications companies. Thus, protection from bot-traffic has become a focus area in RASCOM service feature portfolio.

RASCOM advantages in cybersecurity:

•    Automatic registration of attacks, rapid response to incidents
•    Analysis and development of individual technical measures to thwart the attacks
•    24x7 support, response time less than 15 minutes

We are offering a wide range of solutions to counter malicious activities: https://rascom.net/services/ddos-protection/