Regular folk need to learn how to protect their IoT devices. Because they underestimate the power of a botnet consisting of millions of those devices the following occurred
A massive UDP attack sized at 11 and 1/2 terabits was executed at an undisclosed cloudflare client. According to cloudflare the largest DDoS attack mitigated to date
x.com/Cloudflare/status/196255…
#DDoS #InfoSec #DenialofService #networking #BlackHat
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in reply to Dendrobatus Azureus • • •The image shows a tweet from Cloudflare, a well-known cybersecurity company, detailing an update about a significant DDoS attack. The tweet, posted on September 1, 2025, at 3:59 PM, states that the 11.5 Tbps attack originated from a combination of several IoT and cloud providers, with Google Cloud being one source but not the majority. The tweet mentions that Cloudflare's defenses have been working overtime, autonomously blocking hundreds of hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks, with the largest reaching peaks of 5.1 Gbps and 11.5 Tbps. The tweet also highlights a new world record for the largest DDoS attack, which was autonomously detected and mitigated by Cloudflare. The attack lasted only about 35 seconds. The tweet has garnered 38K views, 11 comments, 58 retweets, 399 likes, and 61 bookmarks. The image includes a graph showing the attack's intensity over time, with the peak clearly marked. The tweet is displayed on a mobile device, with the time and battery level visible at the top of the screen.
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... show moreThe image shows a tweet from Cloudflare, a well-known cybersecurity company, detailing an update about a significant DDoS attack. The tweet, posted on September 1, 2025, at 3:59 PM, states that the 11.5 Tbps attack originated from a combination of several IoT and cloud providers, with Google Cloud being one source but not the majority. The tweet mentions that Cloudflare's defenses have been working overtime, autonomously blocking hundreds of hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks, with the largest reaching peaks of 5.1 Gbps and 11.5 Tbps. The tweet also highlights a new world record for the largest DDoS attack, which was autonomously detected and mitigated by Cloudflare. The attack lasted only about 35 seconds. The tweet has garnered 38K views, 11 comments, 58 retweets, 399 likes, and 61 bookmarks. The image includes a graph showing the attack's intensity over time, with the peak clearly marked. The tweet is displayed on a mobile device, with the time and battery level visible at the top of the screen.
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