Massive 7. 3 Tbps DDoS Attack Delivers 37. 4 TB in 45 Seconds . . . "The 7 3 Tbps attack delivered 37 4 terabytes in 45 seconds " Earlier this January, the web infrastructure and security company said it had mitigated a 5 6 Tbps DDoS attack aimed at an unnamed internet service provider (ISP) from Eastern Asia The attack originated from a Mirai-variant botnet in October 2024
Defending the Internet: how Cloudflare blocked a monumental 7 . . . The 7 3 Tbps attack was a multivector DDoS attack Around 99 996% of the attack traffic was categorized as UDP floods However, the remaining 0 004%, which accounted for 1 3 GB of the attack traffic, were identified as QOTD reflection attacks, Echo reflection attack, NTP reflection attack, Mirai UDP flood attack, Portmap flood, and RIPv1 amplification attacks
Cloudflare Thwarts Record-Breaking 7. 3 Tbps DDoS Attack In May 2025, Cloudflare successfully mitigated the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack ever recorded, peaking at a staggering 7 3 terabits per second The volumetric assault , which lasted under a minute but delivered 37 4 terabytes of traffic, was autonomously blocked by Cloudflare’s global mitigation systems without human
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Record DDoS Pummels Site With Once-Unimaginable 7. 3Tbps of . . . The 7 3Tbps attack amounted to 37 4 terabytes of junk traffic that hit the target in just 45 seconds That's an almost incomprehensible amount of data, equivalent to more than 9,300 full-length HD movies or 7,500 hours of HD streaming content in well under a minute