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Unprecedented DDoS Attacks Unveiled by Cloudflare, Google, and Amazon

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Source: The Verge
Unprecedented DDoS Attacks Unveiled by Cloudflare, Google, and Amazon
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Cloudflare, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon have successfully mitigated the largest DDoS layer 7 attacks ever recorded in August and September. The attacks exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the HTTP/2 protocol, overwhelming servers by sending and canceling hundreds of thousands of requests to websites. Google experienced the heaviest assault at over 398 million requests per second, while Cloudflare saw 201 million requests per second, both breaking previous records. Amazon recorded the fewest requests at 155 million per second. Microsoft also confirmed that its cloud infrastructure was affected.

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  1. Cloudflare, Google, and Amazon explain what's behind the largest DDoS attacks ever  The Verge
  2. New 'HTTP/2 Rapid Reset' zero-day attack breaks DDoS records  BleepingComputer
  3. HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Zero-Day Vulnerability Exploited to Launch Record DDoS Attacks  The Hacker News
  4. Google Warns of Flaw That Can Launch Record-Breaking DDoS Attacks  PCMag
  5. New technique leads to largest DDoS attacks ever, Google and Amazon say  The Record from Recorded Future News
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