Security News > 2025 > January > Mirai Botnet Launches Record 5.6 Tbps DDoS Attack with 13,000+ IoT Devices
2025-01-22 06:19
Web infrastructure and security company Cloudflare on Tuesday said it detected and blocked a 5.6 Terabit per second (Tbps) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, the largest ever attack to be reported to date. The UDP protocol-based attack took place on October 29, 2024, targeting one of its customers, an unnamed internet service provider (ISP) from Eastern Asia. The activity originated
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