cache-busting query flood against a crypto exchange platform in North America, peaking at 607.7 million requests per second. Mitigated in 0.113 seconds.
SYN flood against a education platform platform in Western Europe, peaking at 137.8 Gbps. Mitigated in 0.330 seconds.
login endpoint flood against a sports betting platform in Latin America, peaking at 883.3 million requests per second. Mitigated in 0.949 seconds.
CLDAP reflection against a video streaming platform in the Nordics, peaking at 124.8 Gbps. Mitigated in 0.682 seconds.
Rolled out to all points of presence on 3 June 2022. No action is required. Proof-of-work challenge payload reduced by […]
This post is about hacktivist floods around elections: a field guide. It started, as most of our posts do, with an incident that did not go the way we expected.Observability firstEvery mitigation…
ACK flood against a B2B SaaS platform in the UK, peaking at 167.2 Gbps. Mitigated in 0.315 seconds.
We get asked about load testing through Deflecto without triggering mitigation more than almost anything else, so here is the long answer.Measuring successWe track three numbers for every incident: time to mitigation,…
ACK flood against a developer platform platform in the Benelux, peaking at 285.8 Gbps. Mitigated in 0.084 seconds.
UDP reflection (NTP) against a fashion retail platform in Southeast Asia, peaking at 307.7 Gbps. Mitigated in 0.096 seconds.
TLS handshake exhaustion against a fashion retail platform in North America, peaking at 957.5 million requests per second. Mitigated in 0.315 seconds.
HTTP GET flood against a tax authority portal platform in Latin America, peaking at 31.0 million requests per second. Mitigated in 0.870 seconds.