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HTTP/2 RAPID RESET: DECONSTRUCTING THE RECORD-BREAKING ATTACK

blog.cloudflare.com15 min read

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Cloudflare mitigated a 201 million RPS DDoS, nearly 3X of the previous record, and generated by only 20K bots. This shows the power of new attack methods as the entire web is about 1-3 billion RPS. This blog aims to highlight the growing DDoS threat for all kinds of networks and dive into the record-breaking attack.