Security News > 2023 > October > Record-Breaking 100 Million RPS DDoS Attack Exploits HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Flaw
2023-10-26 13:00
Cloudflare on Thursday said it mitigated thousands of hyper-volumetric HTTP distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that exploited a recently disclosed flaw called HTTP/2 Rapid Reset, 89 of which exceeded 100 million requests per second (RPS). "The campaign contributed to an overall increase of 65% in HTTP DDoS attack traffic in Q3 compared to the previous quarter," the web infrastructure
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