From ehackingnews.com
A new botnet dubbed Mēris has launched a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Russian internet company Yandex. The botnet is thought to have pounded the company’s web infrastructure with millions of HTTP requests before peaking at 21.8 million requests per second (RPS), surpassing a recent botnet-powered attack that pounded an unnamed Cloudflare customer in the financial industry with 17.2 million RPS last month.
Mēris – which means “Plague” in Latvian – is a “botnet of a new kind,” according to Russian DDoS mitigation provider Qrator Labs, which revealed details of the attack on Thursday. The DDoS assaults used a method known as HTTP pipelining, which allows a client (such as a web browser) to create a connection to a server and send numerous requests without having to wait for each answer.