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DDoS attacks are getting bigger and more powerful, and that's a really bad thing

There had been “thousands” of hyper-volumetric HTTP Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks in the time since the HTTP/2 Rapid Reset vulnerability was disclosed, a new report claims, number of HTTP DDoS attacks for the third quarter of the year, compared to Q2, was up 65%. "Similarly, L3/4 DDoS attacks also increased by 14%,” it added. In raw numbers, there were 8.9 trillion HTTP DDoS attack requests in the quarter, up from 5.4 trillion in Q2 and 4.7 trillion in Q1.