Cloudflare Names OVH and Hetzner as Origins of DDOS Attack – Search Engine Journal

Cloudflare named botnets on OVH and Hetzner as origins of one of the largest DDOS attacks, 15.3 million request-per-second

Cloudflare published a report of a massive DDOS attack, naming several well known cloud hosting data centers as the origins of the attack. The attack appeared to follow a trend of attacks increasingly being launched from data centers instead of the traditional residential botnets.

The attack was described as among the largest ever seen:

“Earlier this month, Cloudflare’s systems automatically detected and mitigated a 15.3 million request-per-second (rps) DDoS attack — one of the largest HTTPS DDoS attacks on record.”

DDOS

A Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack is when thousands of Internet-connected devices make page requests at a rapid rate, which can result in the website server being unable to process requests for web pages from, a condition known as a denial of service.

DDOS attacks generally come from what’s referred to as botnets.

Botnets

A botnet is…

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