web infrastructure company cloud flare managed to escape new biggest attack Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) HTTPS History. According to the announcement made by Beeping Computertook place 26 million requests per second.
in an attack DDoS, thousands of requests are sent so the victim can’t handle that many requests and the target stops working properly. In this case, it would be HTTP flood attackfrom the “layer 7” kind, which becomes more complex as it is harder to distinguish what is malicious and what is normal traffic.
In the words of Omer Yoachimik, Cloudflare Product Manager, “Due to the higher cost of establishing a secure TLS encrypted connection, HTTPS DDoS attacks are more expensive in terms of computational resources required. Therefore, it is more costly for the attacker to initiate the attack and mitigate it for the victim”.
The target of the case was a Cloudflare customer using the free plan of their service. The attack came from cloud service providers and the criminals concentrated their power with a botnet of 5,067 devices. Digital Trends, It’s a relatively small number for the scale of what happened.
Yoachimik explains that the botnet used is particularly powerful due to the use of compromised virtual machines and servers. managed to deliver Moreover 212 million HTTPS requests in a period only 30 seconds It uses more than 1,500 networks located in 121 countries around the world.
Fortunately, the attack was stopped before it caused any real problems. But Cloudflare says that DDoS cybercrime is advancing aggressively and cybercrime is on the rise in every industry.
Source: Tec Mundo
