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	"plain_text": "Cloudflare mitigates new record-breaking 22.2 Tbps DDoS attack\r\nBy Bill Toulas\r\nPublished: 2025-09-23 · Archived: 2026-04-05 17:38:25 UTC\r\nCloudflare has mitigated a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at a record-breaking 22.2 terabits per\r\nsecond (Tbps) and 10.6 billion packets per second (Bpps).\r\nDDoS attacks typically exhaust either system or network resources, aiming to make services slow or unavailable to\r\nlegitimate users.\r\nRecord-breaking DDoS attacks are becoming more frequent, as just three weeks ago, Cloudflare disclosed that it mitigated a\r\nmassive 11.5 Tbps and 5.1 Bpps attack, the largest publicly announced at the time.\r\nhttps://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cloudflare-mitigates-new-record-breaking-222-tbps-ddos-attack/\r\nPage 1 of 4\n\n0:00\r\nhttps://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cloudflare-mitigates-new-record-breaking-222-tbps-ddos-attack/\r\nPage 2 of 4\n\nVisit Advertiser websiteGO TO PAGE\r\nTwo months before that, the company dealt with another ecord attack that peaked at 7.3 Tbps. In April, the internet giant\r\nwarned that it was dealing with a record number of DDoS attacks this year.\r\nThe latest DDoS incident, also volumentric, lasted 40 seconds and is by far the largest ever mitigated.\r\nDiagram of the record-breaking attack\r\nSource: Cloudflare\r\nDespite the short assault period, the volume of traffic directed at the victim was enormous, roughly equivalent to streaming\r\none million 4K videos simultaneously.\r\nThe packet rate of 10.6 Bpps can be translated to roughly 1.3 web page refreshes per second from every person on the\r\nplanet.\r\nThe large volume of packets makes it particularly difficult for firewalls, routers, and load balancers to process the requests,\r\neven if the total bandwidth is manageable.\r\nAlthough Cloudflare has not shared many details about the last two DDoS attacks, XLab research division at Chinese\r\ncybersecurity company Qi'anxin attributed an 11.5 Tb DDoS attack to the AISURU botnet.\r\nAccording to the researchers, AISURU has infected more than 300,000 devices worldwide, with a sudden increase occuring\r\nin April 2025 after the compromise of a Totolink router firmware update server.\r\nThe botnet also targets vulnerabilities in IP cameras, DVRs/NVRs, Realtek chips, and routers from T-Mobile, Zyxel, D-Link, and Linksys.\r\nhttps://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cloudflare-mitigates-new-record-breaking-222-tbps-ddos-attack/\r\nPage 3 of 4\n\nAutomated Pentesting Covers Only 1 of 6 Surfaces.\r\nAutomated pentesting proves the path exists. BAS proves whether your controls stop it. Most teams run one without the\r\nother.\r\nThis whitepaper maps six validation surfaces, shows where coverage ends, and provides practitioners with three diagnostic\r\nquestions for any tool evaluation.\r\nSource: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cloudflare-mitigates-new-record-breaking-222-tbps-ddos-attack/\r\nhttps://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cloudflare-mitigates-new-record-breaking-222-tbps-ddos-attack/\r\nPage 4 of 4",
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