Security News > 2022 > August > Google blocks third record-breaking DDoS attack in as many months

To put things in perspective, this is about 76 percent larger than the previous record DDoS attack that Cloudflare thwarted earlier that same month.

Not only is this the third such record-breaking DDoS flood in the past few months - this includes two earlier HTTPS-based attacks blocked by Cloudflare in April and June - but it comes as Google and other security researchers warn that network-flooding events are getting worse, growing in size and frequency.

"The geographic distribution and types of unsecured services leveraged to generate the attack matches the Meris family of attacks," Kiner and Konduru said.

Like the earlier DDoS attack, the Google-blocked event counted 5,256 source IPs from 132 countries contributing to the attack.

Like the earlier record-breaking attack, the June 1 event used HTTPS requests, as opposed to HTTP. These HTTPS-based attacks are more expensive than their HTTP counterparts because it costs more in compute resources to establish a secure TLS connection.

The attack also comes amid a massive spike in DDoS volume since the beginning of the year.

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