Cloudflare has blocked one of the largest DDoS attacks of all time

Date:
Thu, 28 Apr 2022 10:28:50 +0000

Description:
A known actor deployed 6,000 bots to deliver a 15.3 million RPS attack.

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CDN provider Cloudflare has revealed it recently blocked one of the largest HTTPS DDoS attacks ever seen.

Comprised of 15.3 million requests per second (RPS), the assault isnt the largest application-layer attack on record, but it is one of the largest in the HTTPS category.

HTTPS DDoS attacks are usually more expensive, and require more computing power, as establishing a secure TLS encrypted connection is costlier, the company explained.

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The victim was a Cloudflare customer operating a crypto launchpad, which surface Decentralized Finance (DeFi) projects to potential investors.

The attack itself lasted approximately 15 seconds, and was launched by a
known botnet. Out of 6,000 unique endpoints used in this attack, most of them came from data centers. The majority (15%) were located in Indonesia, with large numbers also hailing from Russia, Brazil, India, Colombia, and the US.

A total of 1,300 different networks were employed for the attack. The top networks included the German provider Hetzner Online GmbH, Azteca Comunicaciones Colombia, OVH in France, and other cloud providers. Read more

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According to recent data from Kaspersky, DDoS attacks have never more
popular, with multiple records broken in the first quarter of 2022.

The uptick in attacks was fueled by the war in Ukraine, as many hacktivists took up arms to launch attacks against Russian service providers.

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