Denial of service attack (DDoS) continues to affect large companies. Google announced in a blog post that it faced the largest recorded DDoS attack. The attack is seven times larger than the previous DDoS record holder. Here are the details…
The attack broke a record with 398 million requests per second (rps)
In June last year, hackers attacked a Google Cloud customer by sending 46 million requests per second. This attempt, which lasted 69 minutes, was the largest attack in Google history. However, in the article it shared today, Google announced that they blocked a DDoS attempt that was 7.5 times that amount.
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Google stated that it stopped the largest DDoS attack ever, and that this was due to a newly discovered vulnerability. The attack was carried out with 398 million requests per second (rps). Google used the following statements in its post:
Over the last few years, Google’s DDoS Response Team has observed the trend that distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are increasing exponentially in size. Last year we blocked the largest DDoS attack recorded at that time. This August, we stopped a DDoS attack 7 and a half times larger that used new techniques to disrupt websites and internet services.
This new series of DDoS attacks peaked at 398 million requests per second (rps) and relied on a new HTTP/2 “Quick Reset” technique based on stream multiplexing that affected multiple Internet infrastructure companies. In comparison, last year’s largest recorded DDoS attack peaked at 46 million rps.