HTTP/2 0day allows much larger DDoS attacks

A zero-day vulnerability named “HTTP/2 Rapid Reset” was used by users to launch the largest distributed denial of service attacks ( from distributed ) in the history of the Internet. security 2023

One of the attacks recorded by Cloudflare was three times older than her which broke the record of 71 million requests per second (RPS) reported by the company in February.

Specifically, the DDoS attack fast peaked at 201 million RPS, while Google observed a DDoS attack that peaked at 398 million RPS.

The new attack method uses a feature of HTTP/2 called 'stream cancellation', repeatedly sending a request and canceling it immediately.

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