Cloudflare just mitigated one of the most powerful DDoS attacks ever [TechSpot]

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In addition to the attack’s size, the use of HTTPS rather than typical HTTP requests further complicated the issue—the secure protocol results in more resource overhead due to the compute-intensive nature of the secure HTTPS request. According to Cloudflare, the botnet responsible for carrying out the attack represented 6,000 bots…