Google Fends Off 393 Million RPS DDoS Attack, Its Largest to Date

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Google has announced that it has successfully mitigated what it says is the largest DDoS attack that's been recorded to date. The attack, which began in August, reached a peak of 398 million requests per second (rps), according to Google's Emil Kiner and Tim April, who published a blog post this week explaining how this particular attack turned out to be 7.5 times larger than the previous record holder from last year (46 million RPS). "This two minute attack generated more requests than the total number of article views reported by Wikipedia during the entire month of September 2023," they said.

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