The New DDoS Reality: Why Per-IP Rate Limits No Longer Work

This attack demonstrates why traditional rate limiting is obsolete: distributing requests across 1.2 million IPs—each appearing legitimate in isolation—bypasses per-IP thresholds entirely. Successful defense required behavioral analysis and real-time anomaly detection instead of static rules. Organizations must now shift from IP-based blocking to intelligent pattern recognition to combat increasingly distributed DDoS attacks.