Cybersecurity firm Imperva says it mitigated a ransom distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack targeting an unnamed website. The attack peaked at 2.5 million requests per second (RPS) per second. The affected entity received multiple ransom notes included as part of the DDoS attacks, demanding the company make a bitcoin payment to stay online and avoid losing “hundreds of millions in market cap” The top sources of the attacks came from Indonesia, followed by the U.S., China, Brazil, India, Colombia, Russia, Thailand, Mexico, and Argentina.”]
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2022/03/imperva-thwarts-25-million-rps-ransom.html