Massive “Low and Slow” DDoS Attack Hits Platform With 2.45 Billion in 5 Hours
A new report from the Galileo threat research team at DataDome has detailed one of the most fragmented DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) campaigns ever recorded. In mid-April, within just five hours, cybercriminals launched a stunning 2.45 billion malicious requests at a major user-generated content platform.
This research, shared exclusively with Hackread.com, reflects a concerning change in how threat actors are now bypassing traditional security because instead of trying to breach defenses with brute force, the attackers used a sophisticated ‘low and slow’ approach. According to researchers, the campaign peaked at 205,344 requests per second (RPS), yet it managed to stay entirely under the radar of standard rate-limiting defences.
Evading Defence via Infrastructure Fragmentation
The scale of infrastructure used in this attack is mind-blowingly vast. The traffic was distributed across over 1.2 million unique IP addresses and spanned 16,402 distinct Autonomous Systems (ASNs). For comparison, even a large-scale scraping operation...
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