Security News > 2022 > October > Cloudflare mitigated record DDoS attack against Minecraft server

Wynncraft, one of the largest Minecraft servers, was recently hit by a 2.5 Tbps distributed denial-of-service attack.

It was a multi-vector attack that lasted for about two minutes and consisted of UDP and TCP floods packets attempting to overwhelm the server and keep out hundreds of thousands of players, DDoS mitigation company Cloudflare says.

A DDoS attack this large occurred in 2017, in a campaign that lasted for six months from a nation-state actor, disclosed by Google in 2020.

Cloudflare's 2022 Q3 DDoS report notes that multi-terabit DDoS attacks are now more frequent.

In the third quarter of the year, Cloudflare mitigated more DDoS attacks compared to last year, with HTTP-based ones increasing by 111%. Layer 3 and 4 DDoS attacks also almost doubled year-over-year, their occurrence jumping by 97%. The most notable region targeted by HTTP DDoS attacks was Taiwan, which saw an increase of 200% compared to the last quarter, while Japan was targeted 105% more quarter-over-quarter.

The vast majority were attacks measuring under 500 Mbps, which Cloudflare characterizes as "Cyber-vandalism", attributing to the so-called "Script-kiddies" that use readily available DDoS tools and direct attacks against small and poorly protected targets.

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