46 million in requests per second. Google survived a record attack hackers

The other day, Google reported that in June this year, the search engine faced a large-scale DDOSAtak. It managed to repel, but the company is concerned about the growing hackers. Google stated that in June, he blocked the largest in history attacks of refusal (DDOS) based on HTTPS, the intensity of which reached 46 million inquiries per second. Video day for comparison, this is about 76% more than the previous record DDOS-attack, which Cloudflare prevented earlier in the same month.

As explained by Google Emil Kiner and Satya Condura, "it's like getting all the daily Wikipedia Daily Cesters (one of the 10 most visited websites in the world) in just 10 seconds. " The attack began around 09:45 Pacific time (16:45 by Greenwich) with more than 10 thousand requests per second. Two minutes later, she reached her peak in 46 million inquiries per second. By that time, the Cloud Armor adaptive protection service had already found an attack.