Massive “Low and Slow” DDoS Attack Hits Platform With 2.45 Billion in 5 Hours

**DataDome reported a highly sophisticated, large-scale DDoS campaign** that sent ~2.45 billion requests over five hours (peaking at ~205,344 RPS) using over 1.2 million unique IPs across 16,402 ASNs; attackers used infrastructure fragmentation and a pulsed, low-and-slow per-IP cadence (~1 request per 9s) plus forged client fingerprints to bypass traditional rate limits, and researchers recommend behavioral, time-based detection to identify such managed operations.