The Daily DDoS: Ten Days of Massive Attacks
Dec 2, 2016John Graham-Cumming
Summary
This post details a ten-day period of massive DDoS attacks, observing new attacker patterns like working regular business hours and using non-Mirai botnet software. It highlights Cloudflare's ability to automatically mitigate these large-scale, sustained attacks (peaking at 400Gbps and 172Mpps) without impacting customers, reinforcing the effectiveness of its architectural design for handling such threats.
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