Some independent monitoring services report that X was under fire from around 5 AM to noon on Monday and that users were experiencing login and loading issues throughout that time, making it one of the biggest DDoS attacks on the platform in history.
Service at the Internet Archive remains spotty after about two weeks of off-and-on attacks, beginning with a major data breach in late September that exposed 31 million user credentials.
The Azure outage that took out numerous services on July 30 has been confirmed to be due to a DDoS attack. The twist to the story is that a failure in Microsoft’s defense implementation seems to have actually helped the attackers, making the situation worse than it normally would have been.
HTTP/2 protocol zero-day vulnerability results in DDoS attacks with 200 million to 398 million requests per second, far above the previous record of 71 million using older techniques. Some attacks came from botnets of just about 20,000 devices.
Russian hackers supporting the Russian invasion of Ukraine have launched a campaign of DDoS attacks disrupting NATO operations, including a Turkey-Syria earthquake relief mission.