Let me remind you that we wrote that Cloudflare Coped With The Most Powerful DDoS Attack to Date, and also that Developers Can’t Fix a Serious Vulnerability in OpenSSL.
In an article published earlier this week, Pedersen revealed that he alerted Cloudflare to the problem via HackerOne as early as December 7, 2021. According to [...]
According to the company, an unknown attacker used a botnet of 28,000 infected devices to send HTTP requests to the client’s network.
Based on the IP addresses of the infected devices, Cloudflare experts estimate that 15% of the traffic came from Indonesia, with another 17% from India and Brazil.
These attacks are commonly referred to as “volumetric” attacks and differ from classic [...]