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How DataDome Defended a Marketplace with 90 Million Users from Flash DDoS Attacks

ID: 96af9407-d4c6-5e60-b179-9a3c0ae262cc

STIX ID: report--96af9407-d4c6-5e60-b179-9a3c0ae262cc

Feed Name: Security Boulevard

Threat Score
55/100

Date Published: 2025-02-13

Date Updated: 2026-04-22

Author: Florent Pajot

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Over the past month a major e-commerce marketplace (90M users) was hit by two ultra-short, high-intensity Flash DDoS attacks lasting about 2 minutes each and totaling over 60 million bot requests with peaks of ~640,000 requests/second; DataDome’s DDoS Protect detected the surge, reacted in under 2 milliseconds, and blocked the traffic at the edge with no reported disruption to the customer.

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