Cloudflare, a web infrastructure and security business, announced on Tuesday that it had identified and stopped the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack to history, which was 5.6 Terabit per second (Tbps).
On October 29, 2024, the attack, which was based on the UDP protocol, targeted one of its clients, an unidentified Eastern Asian internet service provider (ISP). A botnet using a Mirai variant was the source of the activity.
According to a research by Omer Yoachimik and Jorge Pacheco of Cloudflare, the attack lasted under 80 seconds and came from more than 13,000 IoT devices.
However, the average contribution of each IP address per second was approximately 1 Gbps read more about Mirai Botnet Launches Record 5.6 Tbps DDoS Attack with 13000+ IoT Devices.
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