On Thursday 16 July 2026 at 02:21 UTC, a Slowloris targeted a video streaming customer in Latin America. The attack peaked at 297.9 million requests per second and lasted 158 minutes. Traffic originated from 715 autonomous systems in 86 countries, predominantly mobile carrier ranges.
| Vector | Slowloris |
| Peak | 297.9 million requests per second |
| Duration | 158 min |
| Time to mitigation | 0.016 s |
| Attack traffic reaching origin | 0.011% |
| Legitimate traffic challenged | 0.40% |
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 363 within 40 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
- Review allow-listed partner ranges quarterly.
- Enable authenticated origin pulls.
- Add a dedicated rate limit for the targeted route.