Google Blocks Record-Setting DDoS Attack That Peaked at 46 Million RPS
By Ionut Arghire on August 19, 2022
In June 2022, Google mitigated a Layer 7 distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 46 million requests per second (RPS).
Disclosed this week, this is the third HTTPS attack this year to reach tens of millions of RPS, after two lower-volume assaults were mitigated by Cloudflare.
The first of them peaked at 15.3 million RPS, Cloudflare announced in April, while the second reached 26 million RPS, the web security company announced in June.
What makes these assaults stand out from the crowd is the use of encrypted requests (HTTPS), meaning that they need significantly higher computational resources compared to typical DDoS attacks.
The attack that Google disclosed this week clearly dwarfs the previously disclosed incidents, as it was roughly 76% larger compared to the previous record.
The attack, Google says, started at 9:45 am PT, on June 1, and lasted for roughly 69 minutes. For most of its duration, the attack was low-intensity – it jumped from 100,000 to 46 million RPS within 10 seconds, but decreased over the next minute and a half to the initial levels.
https://www.securityweek.com/google-blocks-record-setting-ddos-attack-peaked-46-million-rps
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