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New technique leads to largest DDoS attacks ever, Google and Amazon say

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CVE-2023-44487
Rapid Reset Denial-of-Service in HTTP/2 (CWE-400 Resource Exhaustion)
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Amazon, Google and Cloudflare said they detected the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on record in August due to a newly discovered vulnerability. The companies explained on Tuesday morning that a bug tracked as CVE-2023-44487 allowed threat actors a fresh angle for overwhelming websites with a flood of traffic, making them temporarily unavailable to users.

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