Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) campaign targeted a large-scale user-generated content platform, unleashing over 2.45 billion malicious requests in just five hours. Rather than relying on brute-force methods, the attackers distributed traffic across 1.2 million unique IP addresses. This structural shift exposed a fundamental weakness in traditional rate-limiting defenses. By keeping individual IP request rates extremely […]
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