Security News > 2023 > February > Gcore Thwarts Massive 650 Gbps DDoS Attack on Free Plan Client

At the beginning of January, Gcore faced an incident involving several L3/L4 DDoS attacks with a peak volume of 650 Gbps. Attackers exploited over 2000 servers belonging to one of the top three cloud providers worldwide and targeted a client who was using a free CDN plan.

This value is comparable to the record DDoS attack on the largest Minecraft server, only one-fourth as massive.

The client being attacked was using a CDN plan without additional DDoS protection.

In the context of the DDoS attack that occurred, the level of connectivity greatly benefited the efficacy of mitigation.

Gcore and the cloud provider used to launch the attack are peering partners, so while the attack was happening, Gcore was able to ingest most of the traffic over the cloud provider's private network.

The 650 Gbps of traffic could be distributed across the network, and each particular server would only receive 1-2 Gbps, which is an insignificant load. According to Gcore's experience, DDoS attacks will continue to grow year over year.

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