Cloudflare Crush a Record Breaking DDoS Attack
TLDR: Cloudflare successfully defended against a record-breaking 11.5 terabits per second DDoS attack that lasted just 35 seconds. The massive UDP flood originated primarily from compromised resources on Google Cloud Platform and set a new industry high for network bandwidth consumed by malicious traffic. Unprecedented DDoS Attack Scale Shattered Previous Records Cloudflare blocked the largest DDoS attack ever recorded at 11.5 terabits per second (Tbps). This massive cyber assault lasted just 35 seconds but delivered unprecedented volumes of malicious traffic. The DDoS attack was characterised as a hyper-volumetric UDP flood that set a new industry high for network bandwidth consumed by malicious traffic. Cloudflare’s security telemetry captured a sudden spike from negligible background noise to more than 11 Tbps in under 10 seconds. The attack demonstrates the evolving threat landscape organisations face today. Most of the attack came from compromised resources on the Goog...
