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Cloudflare Thwarts Record DDoS Attack Peaking at 15 Million Requests Per Second (cloudflare.com)
8 points by Brajeshwar on April 28, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


"The attack

What’s interesting is that the attack mostly came from data centers. We’re seeing a big move from residential network Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to cloud compute ISPs.

This attack was launched from a botnet of approximately 6,000 unique bots. It originated from 112 countries around the world. Almost 15% of the attack traffic originated from Indonesia, followed by Russia, Brazil, India, Colombia, and the United States."


Seems from this article to have been a pretty standard operation, despite the unusually large scale.

The biggest thing I picked up on was their practice that they mentioned of sampling traffic and analyzing it asynchronously, to avoid latency penalties.




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