Internet services company Cloudflare said Monday that it has repelled the weekend's largest DDoS attack so far.
The company added in a blog post that it detected and prevented not just one attack, but a wave of dozens of high-volume attacks on its customers.
"Most attacks peaked between 50 and 70 million requests per second, with the largest reaching 71 million requests per second," CloudFlare said. "This is the largest HTTP DDoS attack ever and is 35% higher than the previous record of 46 million requests per second set in June 2022," it added.
According to the company, the attacks were launched using more than 30,000 IP addresses from multiple cloud service providers against a variety of targets including: game providers, cloud computing platforms, cryptocurrency companies, and hosts.
The increasing frequency and severity of DDoS attacks is consistent with Cloudflare's recent DDoS threat report, which paints a grim picture, with HTTP DDoS attacks up 79% year-on-year, and the number of large attacks over 100Gbps in 3 hours increasing by 67%. Quarterly, up 87%.
The report (CloudFlare) follows Google's announcement last August to mitigate an HTTPS DDoS attack on the Google Cloud Armor client that reached 46 million requests per second, up nearly 80% from the previous record of 26 million requests per second. It was blocked by Cloud Flare last June.
It should be noted that since 2021, the number of large-scale denial-of-service attacks has been slowly increasing, and many botnets have begun to use powerful hardware to attack targets with millions of requests per second. For example, the MÄ“ris network attacked Yandex in Russia with 21.8 million requests per second and attacked its former client (Cloud Flare) with about 17.2 million requests per second.