Cloudflare mitigates Record-Breaking 22.2 Tbps DDoS Attack.
Cloudflare says it has stopped the largest DDoS attack [distributed denial of service attack] ever recorded. The attack peaked at 22.2 terabits per second & 10.6 billion packets per second. It was detected & mitigated automatically by Cloudflare’s network.
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⁉️Diagram of the record-breaking Attack⁉️
Cloudflare has mitigated a distributed denial-of-service [DDoS] attack that peaked at a record-breaking 22.2 terabits per second [Tbps] and 10.6 billion packets per second [Bpps].
The latest DDoS incident, also volumentric, lasted 40 seconds and is by far the largest ever mitigated. Despite the short assault period, the volume of traffic directed at the victim was enormous, roughly equivalent to streaming one million 4K videos simultaneously.
The packet rate of 10.6 Bpps can be translated to roughly 1.3 web page refreshes per second from every person on the planet. The large volume of packets makes it particularly difficult for firewalls, routers, and load balancers to process the requests, even if the total bandwidth is manageable.
👾DDoS attacks work by overwhelming websites or services with massive amounts of traffic. In this case, the scale was so high that many providers without automated DDoS protection would not have been able to stay online. Massive DDoS incidents are becoming more common, and providers need the capacity to block them in real time. Organisations and users also need to rely on proper DDoS mitigation services to reduce the risk of becoming the next target.👾](https://social.trom.tf/photo/preview/640/33819484 "[ImageSource: Cloudflare]
⁉️Diagram of the record-breaking Attack⁉️
Cloudflare has mitigated a distributed denial-of-service [DDoS] attack that peaked at a record-breaking 22.2 terabits per second [Tbps] and 10.6 billion packets per second [Bpps].
The latest DDoS incident, also volumentric, lasted 40 seconds and is by far the largest ever mitigated. Despite the short assault period, the volume of traffic directed at the victim was enormous, roughly equivalent to streaming one million 4K videos simultaneously.
The packet rate of 10.6 Bpps can be translated to roughly 1.3 web page refreshes per second from every person on the planet. The large volume of packets makes it particularly difficult for firewalls, routers, and load balancers to process the requests, even if the total bandwidth is manageable.
👾DDoS attacks work by overwhelming websites or services with massive amounts of traffic. In this case, the scale was so high that many providers without automated DDoS protection would not have been able to stay online. Massive DDoS incidents are becoming more common, and providers need the capacity to block them in real time. Organisations and users also need to rely on proper DDoS mitigation services to reduce the risk of becoming the next target.👾")