Cloudflare intercepted DDoS attack at 3,8 terabits per second

During a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack targeting organizations in the financial services, Internet, and telecommunications sectors, attack volume peaked at 3,8 terabits per second, among the largest ever have been publicly recorded to date. ddos

The attack involved a "monthly" barrage of more than 100 hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks that flooded the network infrastructure with garbage data. In a volumetric DDoS or hyper-volumetric DDoS attack, the target is overwhelmed with large amounts of data to the point that it consumes bandwidth or exhausts the resources of applications and devices, leaving legitimate users without access.

Many of the attacks targeting the target's network infrastructure (L3/4 network and transport layers) exceeded two billion packets per second (pps) and three terabits per second (Tbps).

According to researchers at internet infrastructure company Cloudflare, the infected devices were present all over the world, but many of them were located in Russia, Vietnam, the US, Brazil and Spain.

The perpetrator of these attacks exploited many types of compromised devices, which included a large number of Asus home routers, Mikrotik systems, DVRs and web servers.

Η Cloudflare mitigated all attacks DDoS autonomously and reported that the one that peaked at 3,8 Tbps lasted 65 seconds.

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