Cloudflare Detects One of the Largest DDoS Attacks on Record Targeting Crypto Platform (therecord.media) 8
Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare said this week that it mitigated one of the largest volumetric distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that has been recorded to date. From a report: Cloudflare said it detected and mitigated a 15.3 million request-per-second (rps) DDoS attack earlier this month -- making it one of the largest HTTPS DDoS attacks on record. Volumetric DDoS attacks differ from traditional bandwidth DDoS attacks where attackers attempt to exhaust and clog up the victim's internet connection bandwidth. Instead, attackers focus on sending as many junk HTTP requests to a victim's server in order to take up precious server CPU and RAM and prevent legitimate users from using targeted sites. Cloudflare previously announced that it stopped the largest DDoS attack on record in August 2021, when it mitigated a 17.2 million HTTP requests/second (rps) attack, a figure that the company described as almost three times larger than any previous volumetric DDoS attack that was ever reported in the public domain. Earlier this month, the company said it stopped an attack targeting a company in the cryptocurrency space.
A DDOS on a cryptocurrency related site? (Score:3)
Just guessing.
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Most criminals aren't that smart. Probably just an attempt at blackmail.
A 15-million rps DDoS attack for blackmail, is like seeing a nitro-powered funny car idling outside the bank as the getaway vehicle.
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It must be those evil bankers (Score:2)
Trying to DDOS crypto and stop it from taking over.
Or it's some pump and dump scheme where they bog down the network to keep the outside traders from getting out before the insiders cash out. I wish this were only theoretical and not a daily practice in the DeFi community.
DDOS attacks only go up in volume (Score:2)