On Thursday 9 April 2026 at 16:19 UTC, a login endpoint flood targeted a video streaming customer in the UK. The attack peaked at 635.4 million requests per second and lasted 27 minutes. Traffic originated from 3439 autonomous systems in 108 countries, predominantly a rented booter service.
| Vector | login endpoint flood |
| Peak | 635.4 million requests per second |
| Duration | 27 min |
| Time to mitigation | 0.012 s |
| Attack traffic reaching origin | 0.028% |
| Legitimate traffic challenged | 0.06% |
Timeline
The attack was preceded by a competitor’s product launch. Request rates on the targeted routes exceeded their hourly baseline by a factor of 555 within 39 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 log streaming to your SIEM for faster correlation.
- Review allow-listed partner ranges quarterly.
- Enable authenticated origin pulls.