Security News > 2023 > November > Russian state-owned Sberbank hit by 1 million RPS DDoS attack
Russian financial organization Sberbank states in a press release that two weeks ago it faced the most powerful distributed denial of service attack in recent history.
Russian outlet Interfax reports that the attack reached one million requests per second, which the organization said was roughly four times the size of the most powerful DDoS Sberbank had experienced up until then.
While one million RPS is clearly significant, it does not compare to record-breaking DDoS attacks that use the new 'HTTP/2 Rapid Reset' technique to generate an impact a hundred times bigger than what Sbersbank experienced.
In late August, Amazon detected a DDoS attack that peaked at 155 million RPS. Cloudflare mitigated a 201 million RPS one, while Google dealt with a DDoS attack that peaked at 398 million requests per second.
In May 2022, Sberbank announced it was targeted by unprecedented hacker attacks, including massive DDoS waves aimed at its online customer services.
New 'HTTP/2 Rapid Reset' zero-day attack breaks DDoS records.
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