Google Cloud claims to have blocked the largest ever Layer 7 DDoS attack

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Google Cloud blocks the largest Layer 7 DDoS attack
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Google Cloud blocks the largest Layer 7 DDoS attack

The attack peaked at 46 million requests per second

Google Cloud Platform said on Thursday that it successfully repelled what it believes was the largest Layer 7 distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack ever witnessed, when a malicious actor trie...

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