Google confirmed it blocked what could be considered one of the biggest attacks DDoS of all time. The company claims that one of its Google Cloud Armor customers was recently the target of a large-scale DDoS attack, which turned out to be one of the largest ever in Internet history.
According to Google, the attack was carried out over HTTPS and reached 46 million requests per second (RPS). This is one of the largest records of attacks of this kind in the history of the Internet, and surpasses the previous record.
The attack will have lasted just two minutes, scaling from 100.000 RPS to a record 46 million. It should be remembered that the previous record was 26 million RPS, having been mitigated in June of this year.
The attack was carried out on the 1st of June, having started by affecting the entity's load distribution systems with 10.000 RPS. However, in just eight minutes, the attack increased to 100.000 RPS, which also activated Google's Cloud Armor service.
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To get an idea of the magnitude of this attack, Google claims that it will have been equated to receiving all Wikipedia traffic in a day in just 10 seconds. About 69 minutes after the attack started, it would be considered finished.
The customer will not have been affected since he had protection against this type of attack active. The company believes that the attack was only terminated because its origin verified that it was not having the intended result, and due to the high costs of carrying out the same, it did not last longer.
Google also claims that the attack originated from just 5256 different IPs, in 132 countries, and was carried out over HTTPS, one of the most complex forms of attack – since the encryption of HTTPS connections makes the task considerably more demanding in terms of of resources.
The origin of the attack has not yet been identified, but it is believed to be associated with the “Meris” botnet, the same one that carried out the attack against Cloudflare.
