Massive 7. 3 Tbps DDoS Attack Delivers 37. 4 TB in 45 Seconds, Targeting . . . "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
Record DDoS pummels site with once-unimaginable 7. 3Tbps of junk traffic . . . Large-scale attacks designed to bring down Internet services by sending them more traffic than they can process keep getting bigger, with the largest one yet, measured at 7 3 terabits per second, being reported Friday by Internet security and performance provider Cloudflare The 7 3Tbps attack…
How a 7. 3 Tbps DDoS Attack Delivered 37. 4 TB in 45 Seconds ? Real . . . In early 2025, a staggering 7 3 Tbps DDoS attack delivered over 37 4 terabytes of data in just 45 seconds, targeting a major global hosting provider This incident marked one of the largest recorded DDoS attacks to date, demonstrating how modern botnets, AI-driven attack automation, and unsecured IoT devices are changing the threat landscape Experts warn that with rising reliance on cloud
Record-Breaking 7. 3 Tbps DDoS Attack Targets Hosting Provider Cloudflare noted that the 7 3 Tbps attack managed to deliver 37 4 Tb of traffic — the equivalent of over 9,000 HD movies — in just 45 seconds “The attack carpet-bombed an average of 21,925 destination ports of a single IP address owned and used by our customer, with a peak of 34,517 destination ports per second,” the company explained
Defending the Internet: how Cloudflare blocked a monumental 7. 3 Tbps . . . 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