This weekend, Cloudflare detected and mitigated dozens of hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks.

The majority of attacks peaked in the ballpark of 50-70 million requests per second (rps) with the largest exceeding 71 million rps. This is the largest reported HTTP DDoS attack on record, more than 35% higher than the previously reported record of 46M rps in June 2022.

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Record-breaking attack: DDoS attack exceeding 71 million requests per second

The attacks were HTTP/2-based and targeted websites protected by Cloudflare. They originated from over 30,000 IP addresses. Some of the attacked websites included a popular gaming provider, cryptocurrency companies, hosting providers, and cloud computing platforms.

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