Unprecedented DDoS Attacks Unveiled by Cloudflare, Google, and Amazon

Cloudflare, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon have successfully mitigated the largest DDoS layer 7 attacks ever recorded in August and September. The attacks exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the HTTP/2 protocol, overwhelming servers by sending and canceling hundreds of thousands of requests to websites. Google experienced the heaviest assault at over 398 million requests per second, while Cloudflare saw 201 million requests per second, both breaking previous records. Amazon recorded the fewest requests at 155 million per second. Microsoft also confirmed that its cloud infrastructure was affected.