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Re:Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking 71M request-per-seco... by londons_explore on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @06:56AM (#34788133)
Are you sure you're blocking 70% of attacks? Or are attackers just starting there, and when they realise their attacks aren't working they go via AWS instead?

I can't imagine many people sufficiently motivated to launch a DDoS attack against you, yet not sufficiently motivated to switch to an attack method that will actually work.

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Re:Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking 71M request-per-seco... by bliteben on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @08:18AM (#34788830)
Most attacks are using a shotgun approach. DDOS generally are targeted but even then just badly behaved scrapers or vulnerability scanners can add up to be like a DDOS.
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