Cloudflare Successfully Blocks Record-Breaking 3.8Tbps DDoS Attack! ⚔️

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Summary:

  1. Historic DDoS Attack
    Cloudflare has thwarted the largest recorded distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, peaking at an astonishing 3.8 terabits per second (Tbps).

  2. Month-Long Campaign
    The attack was part of a month-long campaign targeting organizations in the financial services, internet, and telecommunications sectors, consisting of over 100 hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks.

  3. Attack Mechanism
    In volumetric DDoS attacks, the target is flooded with massive amounts of data, overwhelming their bandwidth and resources, leaving legitimate users unable to access services.

  4. Packet Overload
    Many of the attacks exceeded two billion packets per second, with some reaching over three Tbps. The specific attack peaking at 3.8 Tbps lasted 65 seconds.

  5. Global Infected Devices
    The attack utilized compromised devices from various locations, including Russia, Vietnam, the U.S., Brazil, and Spain, primarily exploiting Asus routers, Mikrotik systems, DVRs, and web servers.

  6. Autonomous Mitigation
    Cloudflare successfully mitigated all the DDoS attacks autonomously, showcasing their advanced capabilities in handling such large-scale cyber threats.

Read more at: BleepingComputer | Cloudflare Blog

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