Our frontend experienced a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that resulted in a temporary outage. Mitigation measures were successfully implemented.
Details of the Incident:
- Nature of Attack: DDoS
- Affected Service: Frontend (Web Application)
- Duration: Approximately 3 minutes
Response and Mitigation:
- Immediate Actions Taken:
- Identified the DDoS attack through monitoring alerts.
- Contacted Cloudflare for future possible situations.
- Mitigation:
- Cloudflare’s “under attack mode” was enabled, which effectively filtered and mitigated the malicious traffic.
- Added a security step to our connections which will automatically stop this attacks when starting.