The largest DDoS attack to date, peaking above 398M rps
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The largest DDoS attack to date, peaking above 398M rps
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#2So is this a new world record?
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#4Linked in this article is more info on the rapid reset feature of HTTP2 which was used at part of the ddos https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/how...
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#5At a previous company, we were subject to semi-frequent attacks (of a much smaller scale). The operating assumption internally was that it’s a competitor trying to undermine us but it remains a mystery.
Anyone involved in these type of attacks (at internet-infrastructure scale or targeting specific companies) brave/crazy enough to create a throwaway account and tell hn about the motivations?
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#6At a previous company, we were subject to semi-frequent attacks (of a much smaller scale). The operating assumption internally was that it’s a competitor trying to undermine us but it remains a mystery. Anyone involved in these type of attacks (at internet-infrastructure scale or targeting specific companies) brave/crazy enough to create a throwaway account and tell hn about the motivations?
We had a similar issue and assumed it was script kiddies having fun. Turns out someone (raises hand) wrote a really bad microservice who's inefficient queries sometimes triggered all our alerts.
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#7Same attack on Cloudflare https://blog.cloudflare.com/zero-day-rapid-reset-http2-recor...
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#8How does DDoS mitigation work? When people say "I put my website behind Cloudflare to mitigate DDoSes", what does it mean exactly?
Is it only about having a large enough ingress pipe that you can weather however many Gb/s you are being bombarded with, and still having some spare capacity for legitimate traffic?
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#9No word on the origin of these attacks? This must require massive amounts of hardware, you’d imagine it to be easily traceable unless some kind of botnet.
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#10At a previous company, we were subject to semi-frequent attacks (of a much smaller scale). The operating assumption internally was that it’s a competitor trying to undermine us but it remains a mystery. Anyone involved in these type of attacks (at internet-infrastructure scale or targeting specific companies) brave/crazy enough to create a throwaway account and tell hn about the motivations?
Sure, I’ll spill the beans. Some people think it’s related to Gaza or Ukraine but it’s not. We just really don’t like Google, we are trying to shut it down so we can bring back Altavista.