Security News > 2025 > January > Cloudflare mitigated a record-breaking 5.6 Tbps DDoS attack

2025-01-21 21:04
The largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack to date peaked at 5.6 terabits per second and came from a Mirai-based botnet with 13,000 compromised devices. [...]
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