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Cloudflare Blocks Largest Recorded DDoS Attack Peaking At 3.8Tbps
Friday October 4, 2024. 12:40 AM , from Slashdot
Many of the attacks aimed at the target's network infrastructure (network and transport layers L3/4) exceeded two billion packets per second (pps) and three terabits per second (Tbps). According to researchers at internet infrastructure company Cloudflare, the infected devices were spread across the globe but many of them were located in Russia, Vietnam, the U.S., Brazil, and Spain. The threat actor behind the campaign leveraged multiple types of compromised devices, which included a large number of Asus home routers, Mikrotik systems, DVRs, and web servers. Cloudflare mitigated all the DDoS attacks autonomously and noted that the one peaking at 3.8 Tbps lasted 65 seconds. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/10/03/2034235/cloudflare-blocks-largest-recorded-ddos-attack-peak...
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