In terms of raw numbers, there were a mind-boggling 8.9 trillion HTTP DDoS attack requests in the quarter, a significant jump from 5.4 trillion in Q2 and 4.7 trillion in Q1.
The catalyst for this onslaught is the HTTP/2 Rapid Reset vulnerability, discovered earlier this month by security researchers from Google and others. Notably, these DDoS attacks reached previously unseen levels of power. In early October, Google reported blocking an attack 7.5 times larger than any previously recorded DDoS incident, hitting 398 million rps.
