Feb 14, 2023 12:30:00

Cloudflare Reports Largest Ever Attack of 71 Million Requests Per Second

Cloudflare reports that there was a DDoS attack on the weekend of February 11 (Sat) and 12 (Sun), 2023, with 50 to 70 million requests per second, and a peak of 71 million requests. . This was the largest HTTP

DDoS attack in history, exceeding the 46 million requests per second attack that Google Cloud received in June 2022 by more than 35%.

Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking 71 million request-per-second DDoS attack
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-mitigates-record-breaking-71-million-request-per-second-ddos-attack/

Cloudflare blocks record-breaking 71 million RPS DDoS attack

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cloudflare-blocks-record-breaking-71-million-rps-ddos-attack/

According to Cloudflare, the attacks originated from more than 30,000 IP addresses and included popular game providers, cryptocurrency companies, hosting providers, and cloud computing providers.

Below is a graph summarizing the state of the attack. After an attack of up to 65 million requests per second from 23:16:30 to 23:17 on February 11, 3 minutes from 23:17 to 23:20:30 with an interval of 30 seconds. You can see that there were more attacks.

According to Cloudflare's Q4 2022 DDoS Threat Report , released in January 2023, DDoS attacks are up 79% year-on-year, with attacks exceeding 100 Gbps per second increasing 67% quarter-on-quarter. The number of attacks lasting more than three hours also increased by 87% compared to the previous quarter.