On Thursday 10 April 2025 at 13:28 UTC, a search endpoint flood targeted a gaming community customer in Latin America. The attack peaked at 229.7 million requests per second and lasted 23 minutes. Traffic originated from 2136 autonomous systems in 112 countries, predominantly a Mirai-derived IoT botnet.
| Vector | search endpoint flood |
| Peak | 229.7 million requests per second |
| Duration | 23 min |
| Time to mitigation | 0.440 s |
| Attack traffic reaching origin | 0.078% |
| Legitimate traffic challenged | 0.73% |
Timeline
The attack was preceded by no stated motive. Request rates on the targeted routes exceeded their hourly baseline by a factor of 462 within 30 seconds. The risk score of participating clients crossed the challenge threshold automatically and proof-of-work difficulty rose with origin load.
What the customer saw
No customer-visible impact. The on-call engineer was notified and acknowledged the incident from the dashboard.
Recommendations
- Enable authenticated origin pulls.
- Lower challenge thresholds on authentication endpoints during high-risk events.
- Add a dedicated rate limit for the targeted route.