HTTP Flood Attack

HTTP Flood Attacks: How the ‘Single Madman’ Uses ‘Legitimate Requests’ to Breach Your Server?

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HTTP Flood Attacks: How the 'Single Madman' Uses 'Legitimate Requests' to Breach Your Server?

Today, let’s discuss something more insidious—did you think DDoS attacks are all about overwhelming traffic? Wrong! There is a type of attack that disguises itself as a normal user, using legitimate requests to drain your server, known as the pinnacle of “legitimate scamming”! It is the HTTP Flood, colloquially referred to as the “Single Madman”—it … Read more

Protection Against HTTP Flood Attacks in Web Firewalls

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Protection Against HTTP Flood Attacks in Web Firewalls

1. Overview of HTTP Flood Attacks An HTTP flood attack is a type of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack where the attacker overwhelms the target server with a large number of forged HTTP requests (such as GET/POST), exhausting server resources (like connection count, CPU, memory) and preventing legitimate users from accessing the service. Unlike … Read more