Imperva Thwarts 2.5 Million RPS Ransom DDoS Extortion Attacks

Cybersecurity company Imperva on Friday said it recently mitigated a ransom distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack targeting an unnamed website that peaked at 2.5 million requests per second (RPS).
“While ransom DDoS attacks are not new, they appear to be evolving and becoming more interesting with time and with each new phase,” Nelli Klepfish, security analyst at Imperva, said. “For