"Cloudflare Detects and Mitigates Largest-Ever DDoS Attack on Record"

Over the weekend of February 11-12, the Content Delivery Network (CDN) provider Cloudflare detected and mitigated dozens of "hyper-volumetric" Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks, including the largest HTTP DDoS attack on record. Most of the DDoS attacks peaked between 50 million and 70 million requests per second, with the greatest surpassing 71 million requests per second. The most significant attack was 35 percent higher than the HTTP DDoS record of 46 million requests per second previously reported in June 2022. Cloudflare reports that the attacks were HTTP/2-based and stemmed from more than 30,000 IP addresses. Cloudflare protected websites belonging to a popular gaming platform, cryptocurrency companies, hosting providers, and cloud computing platforms. The DDoS attacks originated from many cloud providers. The CDN provider has seen an increase in attacks originating from cloud computing providers over the last year. This article continues to discuss Cloudflare's detection and mitigation of the largest DDoS attack on record. 

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