Cloudflare mitigates 26 million request per second DDoS attack

On June 14, 2022, a record-breaking HTTPS DDoS attack was detected and mitigated by Cloudflare's Free plan. The attack targeted a customer website with 26 million requests per second (rps), the largest on record. It originated from a small but powerful botnet of 5,067 devices, mostly virtual machines and servers, which generated an average of 5,200 rps at peak. This attack highlights the growing size and frequency of large-scale DDoS attacks, emphasizing the need for automated always-on protection services that do not rely on human intervention to detect and mitigate threats.