October 10, 2023 at 04:46PM Cloudflare reported that the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack ever recorded was launched using a zero-day vulnerability in the HTTP/2 protocol. The attack surpassed 398 million requests per second, more than five times larger than the previous record. Google, Cloudflare, and AWS have disclosed the vulnerability and implemented mitigations to … Read more
October 10, 2023 at 11:30AM Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloudflare, and Google have taken measures to address a new distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack technique called HTTP/2 Rapid Reset. The attacks, which exploited a flaw in the HTTP/2 protocol, affected the companies’ cloud infrastructures. The attacks overloaded servers by sending and canceling requests in quick succession, … Read more
October 10, 2023 at 09:54AM A new zero-day vulnerability called ‘HTTP/2 Rapid Reset’ has been exploited by malicious actors to launch massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Cloudflare, Google, and AWS have all experienced record-breaking attacks, with the largest reaching 398 million requests per second. The attacks leverage a feature in the HTTP/2 protocol and have … Read more