{"id":126611,"date":"2021-08-22T10:46:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T17:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/cloudflare-mitigated-one-of-the-largest-ddos-attack-involving-17-2-million-rps"},"modified":"2021-08-22T10:46:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T17:46:01","slug":"cloudflare-mitigated-one-of-the-largest-ddos-attack-involving-17-2-million-rps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/cloudflare-mitigated-one-of-the-largest-ddos-attack-involving-17-2-million-rps","title":{"rendered":"Cloudflare mitigated one of the largest DDoS attack involving 17.2 million rps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cloudflare-mitigated-one-of-the-largest-ddos-attack-involving-17-2-million-rps2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Web infrastructure and website security company Cloudflare on Thursday disclosed that it mitigated the largest ever volumetric distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack recorded to date.<\/p>\n<p>The attack, launched via a Mirai botnet, is said to have targeted an unnamed customer in the financial industry last month. \u201cWithin seconds, the botnet bombarded the Cloudflare edge with over 330 million attack requests,\u201d the company <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cloudflare.com\/cloudflare-thwarts-17-2m-rps-ddos-attack-the-largest-ever-reported\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">noted<\/a>, at one point reaching a record high of 17.2 million requests-per-second (rps), making it three times bigger than previously reported HTTP DDoS attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web infrastructure and website security company Cloudflare on Thursday disclosed that it mitigated the largest ever volumetric distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack recorded to date. The attack, launched via a Mirai botnet, is said to have targeted an unnamed customer in the financial industry last month. \u201cWithin seconds, the botnet bombarded the Cloudflare edge [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}