According to a Google blog post, the record-setting DDoS attack used a new technique known as “Rapid Reset” that exploits the HTTP/2 request transfer system that is the foundation on which the internet functions. Google says at its peak, the attack was sending 398 million requests per second. More @Wikipedia
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