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This mega DDoS attack broke all records - huge 37.4TB bombardment in 45 seconds against a single victim is the largest ever recorded
- A massive DDoS attack targeted a hosting provider and attempted to dump almost 38TB of data in 45 seconds, making it the largest attack in history.
- Cloudflare successfully blocked the attack, which generated 7.3 terabits per second (Tbps) of traffic targeting 21,925 destination ports on an IP address.
- The attack used UDP packets as the main vector and also incorporated reflection, amplification, and flood attacks to overwhelm the network.
- The DDoS attack originated from 161 countries, with a significant portion of the traffic coming from IP addresses in Brazil, Vietnam, Taiwan, China, Indonesia, Ukraine, Ecuador, Thailand, the United States, and Saudi Arabia.
- Cloudflare managed to counter the attack by leveraging the distributed nature of the DDoS attack and spreading the traffic load across data centers near the traffic's origin.
- The attack involved compromised internet-connected devices infected with malware, highlighting the prevalence of botnets in orchestrating such attacks.
- Cloudflare's DDoS detection and mitigation systems were effective in identifying and mitigating suspicious packets without disrupting legitimate traffic.
- The attack saw a peak of 45,097 unique source IP addresses per second and an average of 26,855 throughout the attack duration.
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