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Google says has stopped the “largest Distributed Denial of Service” (DDoS) attack ever, and together with industry peers, discovered the vulnerability that made the attack possible in the first place.
In a blog post outlining its work, Google says the blocked attack was 7.5 times larger than the largest-ever recorded DDoS incident. This latest record-setter peaked at 398 million requests per second (rps), up from 46 million rps which was the previous record, established last year.