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Title: Cloudflare Stops New World's Largest DDoS Attack Over Labor Day
Weekend

Link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/09/03/1958...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Over the Labor Day weekend,
Cloudflare says it successfully stopped a record-breaking distributed denial-
of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 11.5 terabits per second (Tbps). This
came only a few months after Cloudflare blocked a then all-time high DDoS
attack of 7.3 Tbps. This latest attack was almost 60% larger. According to
Cloudflare, the assault was the result of a hyper-volumetric User Datagram
Protocol (UDP) flood attack that lasted about 35 seconds. During that just
more than half-minute attack, it delivered over 5.1 billion packets per
second. This attack, Cloudflare reported, came from a combination of several
IoT and cloud providers. Although compromised accounts on Google Cloud were a
major source, the bulk of the attack originated from other sources. The
specific target of this attack has not been publicly disclosed, but we can be
sure the intent was to overwhelm the victim's network and render online
services inoperative. Cloudflare says its globally distributed, fully
autonomous DDoS mitigation network detected and neutralized the threat in
real time, without notable impact on customer services or requiring manual
intervention. This operation highlights both the rising sophistication of
attack methods and the resilience of modern internet infrastructure defenses,
especially Cloudflare's use of real-time packet analysis, fingerprinting, and
rapid threat intelligence sharing across its network.

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