HyperSwap experienced a significant Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on May 5th-6th, impacting both their website and application. Leveraging Aleph Cloud’s cloud solutions, we swiftly responded by assisting HyperSwap with migrating their front-end and redirecting the attack traffic to mitigate its effects. This rapid action proved instrumental in protecting HyperSwap’s users during the incident. While initially unprepared for such a severe attack, HyperSwap had deployed a fallback version of their application via IPFS on our network. 🤝 Our team immediately activated a custom anti-DDoS solution, offloading attack traffic to a black hole and stabilizing the situation. Meanwhile, the Aleph team quickly stepped in to ensure access was maintained by pinpointing the IPFS-hosted version, allowing users to continue using their application while we worked. The Imperator team swiftly responded with experience in indexing and handling high-throughput environments, immediately deploying new proxies, establishing alert systems, and reinforcing our infrastructure. We aided HyperSwap’s migration to a secure anti-DDoS platform on our network, redirecting attack traffic to a black hole, marking the first successful deployment of Aleph Cloud’s experimental anti-DDoS solution designed to protect decentralized applications from targeted disruptions.