"One of the Most Powerful DDoSes Ever Targets Cryptocurrency Platform"

Cloudflare has blocked one of the largest Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks ever recorded. According to Cloudflare, the attack bombarded a cryptocurrency platform with 15.3 million requests. DDoS attacks are measured in different ways, including by the volume of data, the number of packets, or the number of requests sent each second. The current records are 3.4 terabits per second for volumetric DDoS attacks, 809 million packets per second, and 17.2 million requests per second. Although the massive DDoS attack recently mitigated by Cloudflare is still smaller than the record, its power was more significant as the attack was delivered via HTTPS requests instead of HTTP requests. HTTPS requests are more compute-heavy than HTTP requests. Therefore, the latest attack could have put more strain on the targeted platform. The resources used to deliver the HTTPS requests were also greater, thus showing that DDoS attackers are growing more powerful. Cloudflare revealed that the attack came from 112 countries, including Indonesia, Russia, Brazil, India, Columbia, and the US. Within these countries, the attack originated from more than 1,300 different networks, with the flood of traffic mainly coming from data centers such as the German provider Hetzner Online GmbH (Autonomous System Number 24940), Azteca Comunicaciones Colombia (ASN 262186), and OVH in France (ASN 16276). This article continues to discuss Cloudflare's recent mitigation of a massive DDoS attack on a cryptocurrency platform. 

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