DataDome researchers uncovered a massive low and slow DDoS attack that delivered 2.45 billion requests using 1.2 million IP addresses.

The internet isn't a single thing, it's a series of handshakes, lookups, and translations that happen in milliseconds. Let's trace a single request from your keyboard to a database halfway across the world.

Most of us take it for granted: you type a URL, hit enter, and a fraction of a second later, a world of information appears. But between that keystroke and the rendered page lies a complex,…