{"id":174051,"date":"2023-10-12T15:23:31","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T20:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/internet-companies-report-biggest-ever-denial-of-service-operation"},"modified":"2023-10-12T15:23:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T20:23:31","slug":"internet-companies-report-biggest-ever-denial-of-service-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/internet-companies-report-biggest-ever-denial-of-service-operation","title":{"rendered":"Internet companies report biggest-ever denial of service operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/internet-companies-report-biggest-ever-denial-of-service-operation2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (Reuters) \u2014 Internet companies Google, Amazon and Cloudflare say they have weathered the internet\u2019s largest-known denial of service attack and are sounding the alarm over a new technique they warn could easily cause widespread disruption.<\/p>\n<p>Alphabet Inc-owned Google <a data-testid=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/companies\/GOOGL.O\" target=\"_blank\" referrerPolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" class=\"\">(GOOGL.O)<\/a><a data-testid=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/blog\/products\/identity-security\/google-cloud-mitigated-largest-ddos-attack-peaking-above-398-million-rps\" target=\"_blank\" referrerPolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" class=\"\">said in a blog post published Tuesday<\/a> that its cloud services had parried an avalanche of rogue traffic more than seven times the size of the previous record-breaking attack thwarted last year.<\/p>\n<p>Internet protection company Cloudflare Inc <a data-testid=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/companies\/NET.N\" target=\"_blank\" referrerPolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" class=\"\">(NET.N)<\/a><a data-testid=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.cloudflare.com\/zero-day-rapid-reset-http2-record-breaking-ddos-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\" referrerPolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" class=\"\">said the attack<\/a> was \u201cthree times larger than any previous attack we\u2019ve observed.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/Amazon.com\">Amazon.com<\/a> Inc\u2019s <a data-testid=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/companies\/AMZN.O\" target=\"_blank\" referrerPolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" class=\"\">(AMZN.O)<\/a> web services division <a data-testid=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/blogs\/security\/how-aws-protects-customers-from-ddos-events\/\" target=\"_blank\" referrerPolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" class=\"\">also confirmed being hit<\/a> by \u201ca new type of distributed denial of service (DDoS) event.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (Reuters) \u2014 Internet companies Google, Amazon and Cloudflare say they have weathered the internet\u2019s largest-known denial of service attack and are sounding the alarm over a new technique they warn could easily cause widespread disruption. Alphabet Inc-owned Google (GOOGL.O)said in a blog post published Tuesday that its cloud services had parried an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174051","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=174051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}