We get asked about extortion DDoS campaigns target payment providers again more than almost anything else, so here is the long answer.What actually happens during a floodThe first thing to fail during…
UDP reflection (DNS) against a online payments platform in the Nordics, peaking at 212.2 Gbps. Mitigated in 0.050 seconds.
ACK flood against a developer platform platform in Southeast Asia, peaking at 180.9 Gbps. Mitigated in 0.201 seconds.
Slowloris against a retail banking platform in the Middle East, peaking at 22.4 million requests per second. Mitigated in 0.858 seconds.
memcached amplification against a gaming community platform in Western Europe, peaking at 183.0 Gbps. Mitigated in 0.840 seconds.
Rolled out to all points of presence on 25 September 2023. No action is required. Security: updated TLS library to […]
Slowloris against a online payments platform in North America, peaking at 848.8 million requests per second. Mitigated in 0.713 seconds.
running a DDoS tabletop exercise with your team sounds like a narrow topic. It turns out to touch almost every part of how an edge network behaves under attack.What we changedWe moved…
the new incident timeline, explained sounds like a narrow topic. It turns out to touch almost every part of how an edge network behaves under attack.Measuring successWe track three numbers for every…
Over the last few months we have spent a lot of time on carpet bombing: spreading an attack across a whole /22. This is what we learned.Latency budgetOur budget for the whole…
ACK flood against a ticketing platform in Central Europe, peaking at 382.1 Gbps. Mitigated in 0.416 seconds.
login endpoint flood against a news publisher platform in the Nordics, peaking at 573.2 million requests per second. Mitigated in 0.527 seconds.