DDoS attack mitigation

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.