"Google Cloud Blocks Record DDoS attack of 46 Million Requests Per Second"

Google's cloud division has announced that it mitigated a series of HTTPS Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks, which peaked at 46 million requests per second (RPS), the highest recorded to date. The June 1 attack, which targeted an unnamed Google Cloud Armor customer, was 76 percent larger than the 26 million RPS DDoS attack that Cloudflare blocked earlier. To put the magnitude of the attack into perspective, Google Cloud's Emil Kiner and Satya Konduru stated that it is equivalent to receiving all daily requests to Wikipedia (one of the top ten most visited websites in the world) in just 10 seconds. According to Google, the unusually high volume of traffic originated from 5,256 IP addresses in 132 countries, with Brazil, India, Russia, and Indonesia accounting for 31 percent of all attack requests. Although TOR exit nodes accounted for 22 percent of the IP addresses (1,169), they accounted for only 3 percent of the attack traffic. According to the company, the attack used encrypted requests (HTTPS), which would have required more computing resources to generate. The geographical distribution and types of unsecured services used to generate the attack are consistent with the Meris family of attacks. This article continues to discuss findings regarding the DDoS attack blocked by Google Cloud.

THN reports "Google Cloud Blocks Record DDoS attack of 46 Million Requests Per Second"