Last week, the largest distributed denial-of-service attack on record occurred. With 26 million requests per second over https, the previous record was broken by more than 17 million rps. The victim’s website was protected by Cloudflare’s free protection, which detected the attack and fixed it automatically.

This high number of requests was made possible by using virtual machines on a botnet of 5,067 devices, each generating an average of 5,200 rps. This is 4,000 times higher than a larger botnet of 730,000 devices that can only send one million rps at an average rate of 1.3 per device per second.

In less than half a minute, more than 212 million https requests were sent from 121 countries, mostly from Indonesia, the USA, Brazil and Russia. The fact that this is an attack over https means that more computing power is required to establish these secure connections than over http.

Source: TechSpot

Source: Hardware Info

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