DDoS attacks have only gotten more sophisticated as time goes on. An increasingly popular tactic among bad actors is to hit hard and fast in what are described as 'hypervolumetric' attacks. For ...

Cloudflare says the attack against an East Asian ISP came from 13,000 devices infected with a variant of the notorious Mirai malware.

Despite encountering the largest-ever DDoS to date, Cloudflare claimed that the majority (63%) of HTTP DDoS attacks did not ...

Halloween 2024 was the worst ever Cloudflare’s autonomous DDoS defence systems thwarted approximately 21.3 million DDoS attacks in 2024, a significant 53 per cent increase from 2023. According to the ...

Cloudflare has announced that its distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection systems have managed to thwart a massive 3.8 Tbps DDoS attack—the largest ever disclosed publicly by any ...

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have the potential to cost businesses a lot of lost revenue that even the best web hosting providers can struggle to mitigate. They work by using a bot ...

The largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack to date peaked at 5.6 terabits per second and came from a Mirai-based botnet with 13,000 compromised devices. The UDP-based attack occurred ...

Cloudflare says it blocked a 5.6Tbps DDoS attack in October 2024 The attack came from a Mirai botnet It included 13,000 IPs, and lasted 80 seconds Cloudflare has claimed it recently blocked the ...

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Cloudflare says its systems constantly analyse traffic samples "out-of-path" which allows them "to asynchronously detect DDoS attacks without causing latency or impacting performance".