Security News > 2023 > February > Record-breaking number of record-breaking DDoS attacks confirmed

"Over the past year, we've seen more attacks originate from cloud computing providers, Cloudflare researchers wrote in a report, adding that the network traffic used in the attacks over the weekend came from"numerous cloud providers.

Given the increasing number of DDoS attacks coming from cloud providers, Cloudflare is trialing - what convenient timing - a free botnet threat feed to monitor attacks.

According to Cloudflare, in the fourth quarter 2022, 16 percent of victims said they were targeted by ransom DDoS attacks, compared with 10 percent in Q1 2022.

Cloudflare said the weekend incidents from unknown attackers were unrelated to the high-profile DDoS attacks against US hospitals and health clinics by KillNet.

In Q4 2022, the number of HTTP DDoS attacks grew 79 percent year-over-year and the number of volumetric attacks of more than 100 Gb/s jumped 67 percent quarter-over-quarter, according a Cloudflare report.

The massive DDoS attack Google blocked in June was one of several such record-breaking attacks.

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