{
  "id": 2145332,
  "title": "CDN Tsunami Attack Abuses HTTP/3 Translation for Up to 350x DoS Amplification",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/cdn-tsunami-attack-abuses-http-3-translation-for-up-to-350x-dos",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-20T11:39:35.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/cdn-tsunami-attack-abuses-http3.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two denial-of-service (DoS) attacks that exploit how major content delivery networks (CDNs) convert client-facing HTTP/3 traffic into HTTP/1.1 requests to the websites they front, amplifying a low-bandwidth request stream by up to 350x against the origin server. The attacks, collectively named \"CDN Tsunami,\" were evaluated against Alibaba, Baidu,",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}