Distributed Denial of Service attacks, s, generally aim to saturate computer systems with multiple requests. In the recently detected case, those multiple requests were several million, per second. Chilling.
The company Cloudflare, which is responsible for protecting a large majority of websites, has reported the mitigation of a denial of service attack that was sending to the different servers the staggering number of 17,2 millions of requests per second. Fortunately, the security mechanisms acted correctly and there have been no serious consequences for Cloudflare's clients.
In its statement, Cloudflare has reported that the attack was carried out using some 20.000 distributed bots in 125 Countries. Most of these bots come from Indonesia, followed by India and Brazil.
At last, they have also issued a series of recommendations to prevent an attack of this type from having consequences. Among the proposed measures, it is proposed to configure ACL access lists or change the credentials of any device connected to the Internet.
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