<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="true"><li>Cloudflare reported a massive DDoS attack hitting 7.3 terabits per second, the largest ever.</li><li>The attack sent 37.4 terabytes of data within 45 seconds, equivalent to over 9,300 HD movies.</li><li>Attackers targeted a Cloudflare customer by 'carpet bombing' 22,000 destination ports on a single IP.</li><li>UDP flood attacks overwhelmed the target's resources with high packet volumes.</li><li>Reflection attacks accounted for a small portion of the DDoS, redirecting traffic through third-party intermediaries.</li><li>Reflection attacks make it harder to defend against DDoS attacks and increase attack firepower.</li><li>The DDoS used various reflection or amplification vectors like the Network Time Protocol and Quote of the Day Protocol.</li><li>The attack was facilitated by one or more Mirai-based botnets, compromising home IoT devices.</li><li>DDoS attack sizes have been steadily increasing, with recent attacks peaking at 6.5Tbps and 6.3Tbps.</li><li>Large-scale attacks aim to overwhelm Internet services by sending excessive traffic, causing denial of service.</li></ul>

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