The company reported that it detected and mitigated dozens of hypervolume DDoS attacks over the weekend. Most reached 50-70 million requests per second. The biggest surpassed it 71 million requests per second. This indicator is a record for the whole world, surpassing the previous one by up to 35 percent.

What happened

The company doesn’t say which sites have been targeted by hackers, but some are. popular game provider, cryptocurrency companies, hosting providers and cloud computing platforms.

Cloudflare also clarifies that these attacks are not related to the Super Bowl or the recent activity of the Russian crime group Killnet.

This attack campaign started less than two weeks after Killnet’s DDoS campaign targeting health websites. Based on the methods and objectives, we do not believe that these latest attacks are related to a public health campaign. Additionally, the US Super Bowl was held yesterday, and we do not believe this offensive campaign is related to that event.
– explained on the blog.

Attackers often use a botnet (botnet) to make attacks larger and more sophisticated. It consolidates multiple infected computers and servers whose resources are used for stealth attacks. The hacker orchestrates a botnet to bombard the victim’s sites with requests. A sufficiently large and powerful botnet can generate massive attacks. However, creating and operating a botnet requires significant investment and experience.