Gcore Thwarts Massive 650 Gbps DDoS Attack on Free Plan Client
Gcore Thwarts Massive 650 Gbps DDoS Attack on Free Plan Client
22 February 2023
At the beginning of January, Gcore faced an incident involving several L3/L4 DDoS attacks with a peak volume of 650 Gbps. Attackers exploited over 2000 servers belonging to one of the top three cloud providers worldwide and targeted a client who was using a free CDN plan. However, due to Gcore’s distribution of infrastructure and a large number of peering partners, the attacks were mitigated,