04-10-2024 00:40 via tech.slashdot.org

Cloudflare Blocks Largest Recorded DDoS Attack Peaking At 3.8Tbps

BleepingComputer's Ionut Ilascu reports: During a distributed denial-of-service campaign targeting organizations in the financial services, internet, and telecommunications sectors, volumetric attacks peaked at 3.8 terabits per second, the largest publicly recorded to date. The assault consisted of a "month-long" barrage of more than 100 hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks flooding the network infrastructure with garbage data. In a volumetric DDoS attack, the target is overwhelmed with large amounts o
Read more »