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After ChatGPT, Anonymous Sudan took down Cloudflare website

After ChatGPT, Anonymous Sudan took down the Cloudflare website Pierluigi Paganini November 10, 2023 After ChatGPT, Anonymous Sudan took down the Cloudflare website with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The hacktivist group Anonymous Sudan claimed responsibility for the massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that took down the website of Cloudflare. Cloudflare confirmed that a DDoS attack took […]

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Largest DDoS attacks ever reported by Google, Cloudflare and AWS

Internet infrastructure providers Google Cloud, Cloudflare and Amazon Web Services have reported the largest ever distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The DDoS attacks were reported on October 10, with the cloud service providers noting that the attacks were part of a mass exploit of a zero-day vulnerability. The DDoS attacks themselves started during August and are still […]

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HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Zero-Day Vulnerability Exploited to Launch Record DDoS Attacks

Oct 10, 2023NewsroomServer Security / Vulnerability Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloudflare, and Google on Tuesday said they took steps to mitigate record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that relied on a novel technique called HTTP/2 Rapid Reset. The layer 7 attacks were detected in late August 2023, the companies said in a coordinated disclosure. The cumulative […]

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Researcher Reveals New Techniques to Bypass Cloudflare’s Firewall and DDoS Protection

Firewall and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack prevention mechanisms in Cloudflare can be circumvented by exploiting gaps in cross-tenant security controls, defeating the very purpose of these safeguards, it has emerged. “Attackers can utilize their own Cloudflare accounts to abuse the per-design trust-relationship between Cloudflare and the customers’ websites, rendering the protection mechanism ineffective,” Certitude researcher […]