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.
Albert Pedersen
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 [...]