DDoS, Cloudflare and Tbps

Record-Breaking DDoS Cyberattack Reaches 5.6 Tbps, Cloudflare Reports
Cloudflare has mitigated the biggest distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on record. Here's what you need to know.
Record-Breaking DDoS Attack Reached 5.6 Tbps
Cloudflare saw a 53% increase in DDoS attack frequency last year, when it blocked a record-breaking 5.6 Tbps attack.
World's largest DDoS attack blocked, Cloudflare claims
Cloudflare says it blocked a 5.6Tbps DDoS attack in October 2024 The attack came from a Mirai botnet It included 13,000 IPs, and lasted 80 seconds Cloudflare has claimed it recently blocked the largest Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack ever recorded.
Cloudflare blocked 21.3 million DDoS attacks last year
Halloween 2024 was the worst ever Cloudflare’s autonomous DDoS defence systems thwarted approximately 21.3 million DDoS attacks in 2024, a significant 53 per cent increase from 2023. According to the company’s latest report,
Cloudflare Mitigates Largest DDoS Attack Compromising 13,000 Devices at 5.6 Tbps
The biggest DDoS attack to date was mitigated by Cloudflare recently. The attack compromised over 13,000 devices and the speed noted down was 5.6 terabits per second. The incident originated from a botnet based in Mirai and arose in October of 2024.
Cloudflare Mitigates Record-Breaking 5.6Tbps DDoS Attack
Despite encountering the largest-ever DDoS to date, Cloudflare claimed that the majority (63%) of HTTP DDoS attacks did not exceed 50,000 requests per second, while most (93%) network-layer attacks did not exceed 500Mbps and 87% did not exceed 50,000 pps.
Mirai Botnet Launches Record 5.6 Tbps DDoS Attack with 13,000+ IoT Devices
Cloudflare blocked a 5.6 Tbps DDoS attack from a Mirai botnet, with 1+ Tbps attacks surging 1,885% in Q4 2024.
Cloudflare mitigated a record-breaking 5.6 Tbps DDoS attack
The largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack to date peaked at 5.6 terabits per second and came from a Mirai-based botnet with 13,000 compromised devices.
Cloudflare claims to have mitigated biggest DDoS attack on record with requests flying in from 5,500 IP addresses per second
DDoS attacks have only gotten more sophisticated as time goes on. An increasingly popular tactic among bad actors is to hit hard and fast in what are described as 'hypervolumetric' attacks. For instance,
The Internet is (once again) awash with IoT botnets delivering record DDoSes
Last week, security company Trend Micro said it also found an IoT botnet. The botnet, which is driven by variants of Mirai ...
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Hackers Exploit Zero-Day in cnPilot Routers to Deploy AIRASHI DDoS Botnet
Threat actors are exploiting an unspecified zero-day vulnerability in Cambium Networks cnPilot routers to deploy a variant of ...
Prorussian DDoS attacks on Swiss institutions
Swiss institutions have been under DDoS attack since Tuesday. The perpetrator is the pro-Russian collective "NoName057(16)".
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DataDome launches DDoS protect for cybersecurity
DataDome, the pioneer in cyber fraud protection unveiled DDoS Protect, a cloud-based service designed to block distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack traffic at the edge before it overwhelms ...
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Who is DDoSing you? Rivals, probably, or cheesed-off users
In addition to Chinese spies invading organizations' networks and ransomware crews locking up sensitive files, botnets ...
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Spooks of the internet came alive this Halloween
Halloween 2024 made history with a massive spike in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, with one particular assault ...