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Huh, I worked on a site with a similar issue in ~2019. A massive flood of traffic for a single site from Indian mobile apps (~15kqps at peak iirc). I think it
by bpicolo 6y ago
Huh, I worked on a site with a similar issue in ~2019. A massive flood of traffic for a single site from Indian mobile apps (~15kqps at peak iirc).
I think it ended up being a sort of mobile-based botnet with a bizarre target, which luckily was deduced from some of the headers sent (they all had a random common header).
- downrightmike 6y agoSaw a story recently that Indians were bringing down the internet because of sending good morning messages: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-internet-is-filling-up-because-indians-are-sending-millions-of-good-morning-texts-1516640068 https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-internet-is-filling-up-beca... I'd bet that this is the flower of the week for them.
- nso 6y agoSays it's been going since last June.
- downrightmike 6y agoWhat's your point?
- smcl 6y agoWhat's "kqps"? It's obviously kilo-{somethings} per second, but I don't know what the {something} would be edit: queries?
- bpicolo 6y agoYep, queries
- dailypeeker 6y ago15000 queries per second