Cloudflare mitigates 26 million request per second DDoS attack

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Omer Yoachimik (@OmerYoahimik) discloses how the folks over at Cloudflare automatically detected and mitigated a 26 million request per second DDoS attack — the largest HTTPS DDoS attack on record.🫣. I found it interesting the source was hijacked VMs and servers.