A practical checklist for surviving Black Friday traffic
This post is about a practical checklist for surviving Black Friday traffic. It started, as most of our posts do, with an incident that did not go the way we expected.Lessons for…
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Threat Bulletin 0898: TLS handshake exhaustion against a video streaming platform in Latin America
TLS handshake exhaustion against a video streaming platform in Latin America, peaking at 314.2 million requests per second. Mitigated in 0.346 seconds.
Extortion DDoS campaigns target payment providers again
extortion DDoS campaigns target payment providers again sounds like a narrow topic. It turns out to touch almost every part of how an edge network behaves under attack.The economics behind itA booter…
Challenge instead of block: fewer false positives, same protection (part 2)
challenge instead of block: fewer false positives, same protection sounds like a narrow topic. It turns out to touch almost every part of how an edge network behaves under attack.The numbersAcross the…
Threat Bulletin 0813: UDP reflection (NTP) against a airline booking platform in Western Europe
UDP reflection (NTP) against a airline booking platform in Western Europe, peaking at 309.4 Gbps. Mitigated in 0.285 seconds.
Threat Bulletin 0786: cache-busting query flood against a B2B SaaS platform in Latin America
cache-busting query flood against a B2B SaaS platform in Latin America, peaking at 314.7 million requests per second. Mitigated in 0.554 seconds.
Threat Bulletin 0781: search endpoint flood against a airline booking platform in Western Europe
search endpoint flood against a airline booking platform in Western Europe, peaking at 809.4 million requests per second. Mitigated in 0.310 seconds.
Deflecto Edge 15.2.1 release notes
Rolled out to all points of presence on 17 February 2024. No action is required. Security: updated TLS library to […]
Threat Bulletin 0769: WebSocket connection flood against a retail banking platform in the Middle East
WebSocket connection flood against a retail banking platform in the Middle East, peaking at 309.7 million requests per second. Mitigated in 0.899 seconds.
Threat Bulletin 0735: Slowloris against a electronics retail platform in Central Europe
Slowloris against a electronics retail platform in Central Europe, peaking at 525.7 million requests per second. Mitigated in 0.701 seconds.
Threat Bulletin 0704: WebSocket connection flood against a municipal services platform in Southeast Asia
WebSocket connection flood against a municipal services platform in Southeast Asia, peaking at 23.5 million requests per second. Mitigated in 0.692 seconds.
Threat Bulletin 0702: carpet-bombing UDP flood against a electronics retail platform in the Nordics
carpet-bombing UDP flood against a electronics retail platform in the Nordics, peaking at 329.1 Gbps. Mitigated in 0.358 seconds.