Cloudflare, a company that specializes in web security and refusal to service (DDOS) to attack, just Informed It managed to stop an unprecedented scale attack.
The https DDOS attack was one of the biggest attacks ever, and it came from unusual sources – data centers.
The attack was detected and automatically reduced by the defense systems of Claudflair, which were installed to one of their customers using the paid professional scheme. At its peak, the attack largely reached 15.3 million requests-packets (RPS). This is the largest https DDOS attack which is reduced anytime by cloudflair.
Cloudflare has previously seen a large -scale attack targeting the unnovated HTTP, but as Cloudflare mentions in its declaration, it is very expensive and difficult enterprise to target https. Such attacks usually require additional computational resources due to the need to establish transport layer safety (TLS) encrypted connections. Cost increase is two -fold: This attacker costs more to install the attack, and costs more for the server targeted to reduce it.
The attack lasted for less than 15 seconds, and its goal was a cryptocurrency launchpad. Crypto launchpads are platforms that can use to increase early-phase financing by taking advantage of the access of the startup launchpad within the crypto space. Cloudflare reduced the attack without any additional action taken by the customer.
The source of the attack was not unfamiliar to the cloudflair – it said that it has seen the attacks up to 10 million RPS from sources matching the fingerprint of the same attack. However, the equipment that carried out the attack was something new, given that they came mostly from data centers. Cloudflare notes that it marks a change that it is already watching late, with large attacks on the huge network of Cloud Compute ISP from residential network Internet service providers (ISPS).
About 6,000 unique bots in more than 1,300 networks carried out the DDOS attack, which Cloudflare managed to automatically reduce without any human intervention. Perhaps the number of more impressive places involves, connecting a total of 112 countries around the world. The largest part of this (15%) came from Indonesia, followed by Russia, Brazil, India, Colombia and America
Although this was never the largest DDOS attack by Claudflair, it is definitely in terms of volume and severity. In 2021, the service managed to stop the 17.2 million RPS HTTP DDOS attack. Earlier this year, the company reported that it has seen a huge increase in the number of DDOs attacks, which increased in the 175% quarter-fourth-fourth-witted based on the fourth quarter data of 2021.
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