Google announced to have blocked the largest ever HTTPs DDoS attack that hit one of its Cloud Armor customers. The IT giant revealed that the attack reached 46 million requests per second (RPS).
The attack took place on June 1st, at 09:45, it started with more than 10,000 requests per second (rps) and targeted a customer’s HTTP/S Load Balancer. Eight minutes later, the attack grew to 100,000 requests per second, and two minutes later reached 46 million RPS. The DDoS attack lasted 69 minutes.
The company pointed out that the volume of requests per second is at least 76% more than the previous record, which was blocked by Cloudflare in June and that reached 26 million RPS.
The experts reported that the attack originated from 5,256 source IPs from 132 countries, the top 4 countries contributed approximately 31% of the total attack traffic.
Approximately 22% (1,169) of the source IPs corresponded to Tor exit nodes, but experts pointed out that the request volume coming from those nodes represented just 3% of the attack traffic.
