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.
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