Google, Cloudflare and Amazon Internet Services (AWS) have jointly revealed a new vulnerability called “HTTP/2 Rapid Reset” exploited by unidentified users.
He published the result that when DDoS attacks reached their peak, there were 201 million attempts per second, which was 7.5 times that of the last DDoS attack. It was determined that these attacks were aimed at complex network infrastructures. According to the CEO of Cloudflare, the attempts aimed to create problems in their infrastructure and disable the servers by sending hundreds of request attempts to the websites instantly.
What happens if there is an attack on the HTTP/2 Infrastructure?
This standard, which creates internet protocols, constitutes 60% of the network parts of internet applications. The purpose of this is to define how websites should be defined, the speed quality and the tasks of websites (Cloudflare).
According to Cloudflare CEO, the attempts were aimed at sending hundreds of requests to websites instantly, causing problems in their infrastructure and disabling the servers.
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