What is Mēris Botnet? The story of the record-breaking DDoS botnet
How a botnet named after the Latvian word for “plague” set world records with 21.8 million requests per second and became the most feared DDoS-for-Hire service on the market.
World-record DDoS attacks: 17.2M RPS (Cloudflare, 2021), 21.8M RPS (Yandex/Qrator, 2021) and 398M RPS (Google, 2023) — all set by one botnet. Timelines, sources and screenshots.
How a botnet named after the Latvian word for “plague” set world records with 21.8 million requests per second and became the most feared DDoS-for-Hire service on the market.