How Datadome Defended A Marketplace With 90 Million Users From Flash DDoS Attacks
Security Boulevard, Thursday, February 13th, 2025
Over the last month, a leading e-commerce marketplace with over 90 million users was targeted by two Flash DDoS attacks. These attacks lasted 2 minutes on average and had a combined total of over 60 million bot requests.
A Flash DDoS attack is an ultra-short, high-intensity distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack designed to overwhelm online services in mere moments. Unlike traditional DDoS attacks, which often sustain high traffic over longer periods, Flash DDoS attacks strike suddenly, peaking within seconds and disappearing almost as quickly as they begin. Only DDoS defense systems, like DataDome, that operate in milliseconds are prepared to detect and mitigate these Flash DDoS attacks due to the sheer speed at which the requests flood in.