Security News > 2022 > July > Mantis botnet behind the record-breaking DDoS attack in June
The record-breaking distributed denial-of-service attack that Cloudflare mitigated last month originated from a new botnet called Mantis, which is currently described as "The most powerful botnet to date."
The previous record was held by Mēris botnet, which launched an attack that spiked at 21.8 million requests per second.
DDoS mitigation company Cloudflare, has been tracking Mantis botnet attacks against one thousands of its customers.
Cloudflare explains in a report today that its analysts named the botnet Mantis after the Mantis Shrimp that can deliver devastating blows with its claws while being roughly 10 cm long.
Generating many HTTPS requests is a resource-demanding process, so the more powerful the devices that constitute the botnet swarm, the more potent the DDoS attacks they can launch.
Over the past 30 days, Mantis launched 3,000 DDoS attacks against almost a thousand Cloudflare customers, the company notes.
News URL
Related news
- Mirai Botnet Launches Record 5.6 Tbps DDoS Attack with 13,000+ IoT Devices (source)
- Mirai botnet behind the largest DDoS attack to date (source)
- New Aquabot Botnet Exploits CVE-2024-41710 in Mitel Phones for DDoS Attacks (source)
- New Eleven11bot botnet infects 86,000 devices for DDoS attacks (source)
- Cloudflare mitigated a record-breaking 5.6 Tbps DDoS attack (source)
- Hackers Exploit Zero-Day in cnPilot Routers to Deploy AIRASHI DDoS Botnet (source)
- DDoS attacks reportedly behind DayZ and Arma network outages (source)
- Gcore DDoS Radar Reveals 56% YoY Increase in DDoS Attacks (source)
- Botnet targets Basic Auth in Microsoft 365 password spray attacks (source)
- Unpatched Edimax IP camera flaw actively exploited in botnet attacks (source)