An unprecedented distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack saw over 25.3 billion requests being sent to a target.
As reported by Bleeping Computer, the firm’s systems defended the record-breaking attack when it occurred on June 27, 2022.
Granted, the aforementioned figure doesn’t come remotely close to the largest HTTPS DDoS attack ever recorded . However, the time span of how long the attack continued was specifically highlighted — this particular attack ended after four hours. Due to the automated mitigation solution in place that blocks DDoS attacks in under three seconds, the attempt could have peaked at a much higher number than the 3.9 million figure.
“The attack started at 3.1M RPS and maintained a rate of around 3M RPS. Once the attack peaked at 3.9M RPS, the attack lowered for several minutes but returned to full strength for another hour,” Imperva said.