On Wednesday 10 September 2025 at 22:29 UTC, a credential stuffing targeted a gaming community customer in the Middle East. The attack peaked at 481.3 million requests per second and lasted 144 minutes. Traffic originated from 2985 autonomous systems in 7 countries, predominantly hijacked home routers.
| Vector | credential stuffing |
| Peak | 481.3 million requests per second |
| Duration | 144 min |
| Time to mitigation | 0.460 s |
| Attack traffic reaching origin | 0.015% |
| Legitimate traffic challenged | 0.22% |
Timeline
The attack was preceded by an extortion email received two days earlier. Request rates on the targeted routes exceeded their hourly baseline by a factor of 507 within 23 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
Checkout conversion was unchanged compared with the same hour of the previous week.
Recommendations
- Add a dedicated rate limit for the targeted route.
- Enable authenticated origin pulls.
- Review allow-listed partner ranges quarterly.