{"id":158045,"date":"2023-02-15T00:24:32","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T06:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/massive-http-ddos-attack-hits-record-high-of-71-million-requests-second"},"modified":"2023-02-15T00:24:32","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T06:24:32","slug":"massive-http-ddos-attack-hits-record-high-of-71-million-requests-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/massive-http-ddos-attack-hits-record-high-of-71-million-requests-second","title":{"rendered":"Massive HTTP DDoS Attack Hits Record High of 71 Million Requests\/Second"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/massive-http-ddos-attack-hits-record-high-of-71-million-requests-second2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Web infrastructure company Cloudflare on Monday disclosed that it thwarted a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at over 71 million requests per second (RPS).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe majority of attacks peaked in the ballpark of 50\u201370 million requests per second (RPS) with the largest exceeding 71 million,\u201d the company <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cloudflare.com\/cloudflare-mitigates-record-breaking-71-million-request-per-second-ddos-attack\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>, calling it a \u201chyper-volumetric\u201d DDoS attack.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also the largest HTTP DDoS attack reported to date, more than 35% higher than the previous 46 million RPS DDoS attack that <a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2022\/08\/google-cloud-blocks-record-ddos-attack.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google Cloud mitigated in June 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web infrastructure company Cloudflare on Monday disclosed that it thwarted a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at over 71 million requests per second (RPS). \u201cThe majority of attacks peaked in the ballpark of 50\u201370 million requests per second (RPS) with the largest exceeding 71 million,\u201d the company said, calling it a \u201chyper-volumetric\u201d DDoS [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158045","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}