Record-breaking DDoS attacks facilitated by novel technique thwarted

Google, Cloudflare, and Amazon Web Services were able to avert record-breaking layer 7 distributed denial-of-service attacks leveraging the new HTTP/2 Rapid Reset technique that peaked at 398 million, 201 million, and 155 million requests per second, respectively, reports The Hacker News.

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