Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare suffered one of the largest volumetric distributed denials of service (DDoS) attacks.
The attack lasted less than 15 seconds and was launched from a botnet of approximately 6,000 unique bots and originated from 112 countries around the world.
The company immediately detected and mitigated a 15.3 million request-per-second (rps) DDoS attack.
The attack was aimed at a “crypto launchpad” which is “used to surface Decentralized Finance projects to potential investors.”
"id": "CLO33326522",
"linkid": "cloudflare",
"type": "Cyber Attack",
"date": "04/2022",
"severity": "60",
"impact": "1",
"explanation": "Attack without any consequences"