Security researchers found that this unprecedented attack power was caused by the CVE-2023-44487 vulnerability in the HTTP/2 protocol. The company urged administrators of web services with HTTP/2 support to install the patch. The vulnerability is rated as dangerous: 7.5 points out of 10 possible.
This is the first time such a large number of requests have been observed as part of a DDoS attack. The “record” for hacker settlements is 46 million requests per second. The latest attack only lasted two minutes, but more queries were generated during that time than the articles Wikipedia users read in the entire month of September 2023.
However, all Google services continued to work. The company achieved this thanks to its global freight distribution infrastructure.
Source: Ferra
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