Tag: DDos

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Cloudflare signals DDoS record: 201 million requests per second

Cloudflare signals DDoS record: 201 million requests per second

According to figures from Cloudflare, a new DDoS record has been set, with a whopping 201 million requests per second. Cloudflare observes that the third quarter saw more high-volume HTTP DDoS attacks than ever before. These types of attacks generate high volumes of pointless traffic or spurious... Read more

date5 months ago
Bots are responsible for half of all internet traffic

Bots are responsible for half of all internet traffic

Bots are responsible for 50 percent of global internet traffic, according to research by Barracuda Networks. Three out of five of these are classified as bad bots, which are intended for nefarious purposes such as DDoS attacks and data theft. Overall, then, bad bots account for 30 percent of int... Read more

date5 months ago
Microsoft GitHub involved in DDoS attack on open source library

Microsoft GitHub involved in DDoS attack on open source library

Servers of the project GMP suffered a DDoS attack from an odd attacker last month. In fact, investigations revealed that hundreds of Microsoft servers were involved in the attack. According to the GMP project, GitHub's architecture provides a quick pass to such attacks, Microsoft shifts the blame. ... Read more

date9 months ago
Microsoft Azure offers DDoS protection for SMBs

Microsoft Azure offers DDoS protection for SMBs

Microsoft released a public preview of DDoS IP Protection. The Azure service was designed to protect SMBs from DDoS attacks. According to Microsoft, DDoS attacks are a growing threat to SMEs. Research by Cloudflare suggests that the number of application layer DDoS attacks increased as much as 1... Read more

date1 year ago
Akamai stops record-breaking DDoS attack on EU client

Akamai stops record-breaking DDoS attack on EU client

A new distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack beat Akamai's previous record set in July. According to Akamai, the attack appears to have originated from the same threat actor as July's record-breaking attack, implying that the operators are in further boosting their swarm. Akamai is a cyber... Read more

date2 years ago
Google claims it blocked the largest DDoS attack ever

Google claims it blocked the largest DDoS attack ever

Google claims to have blocked the largest DDoS attack ever. During the attack, the number of HTTPS requests peaked at 46 million per second. The Meris botnet was likely behind the attack. According to Google, this was the largest Layer 7 DDoS attack ever. The attack was aimed at disrupting the I... Read more

date2 years ago
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