IoT Home Router Botnet Leveraged in Large DDoS Attack

We have been monitoring a large-scale Layer 7 HTTPS flood attack (i.e., application level DDoS) against a customer over the past few weeks. It is being distributed across 47,000 IP addresses and has been pushing over 120,000 HTTPS requests per second (RPS) to the website. Unlike volumetric attacks that target the network link (measured in…

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