CloudFlare Thwarts Record DDoS Attack Peaking at 15 Million Requests Per Second

Cloudflare on Wednesday disclosed that it acted to mitigate a 15.3 million request-per-second (RPS) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The web infrastructure and website security company called it one of the "largest S DDoS attacks on record." "S DDoS attacks are more expensive in terms of required computational resources because of the higher cost of establishing a secure TLS