CloudFlare has said it has observed mobile advertisements that are pumping out around 275,000 HTTP requests per second. No victims have been named, but cloudflare has said the Layer 7 HTTP floods hitting the target is a once-theoretical attack turning up in the real world. London CloudFlare engineer Marek Majkowski says the difficulty in turning HTTP floods into a real attack was overcome using malicious JavaScript in an advertisement. "Browser-based L7 floods have been rumored...
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