Waqas reports:
Cloudflare stated that it had managed to mitigate multiple “hyper-volumetric” DDoS attacks that originated from more than 30,000 IP addresses.
According to a recent blog post by Cloudflare, a vendor specializing in DDoS attack mitigation, its customers were targeted by a series of volumetric DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks over the past weekend.
These DDoS attacks were intended to overwhelm their websites with a high volume of HTTP requests, but what’s worse, Cloudflare revealed that this was the largest reported HTTP DDoS attack on record.
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