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Record DDoS Pummels Site with Once-Unimaginable 7.3Tbps of Junk Traffic

UNNAMED HOSTING PROVIDER USING CLOUDFLARE'S MAGIC TRANSIT SERVICE, JUN 20 – The 7.3 Tbps attack involved over 122,000 unique IPs from 161 countries and sent 37.4 terabytes of traffic in 45 seconds, overwhelming nearly 22,000 ports on a single IP address.

  • Cloudflare defended against a record 7.3 terabits per second DDoS attack in mid-May 2025 targeting an unnamed hosting provider worldwide.
  • The massive multi-vector attack originated from over 122,000 IP addresses across 161 countries, with nearly half the traffic from Brazil and Vietnam.
  • The attack flooded approximately 34,500 destination ports with 99.996% UDP packets, overwhelming the target’s system and denying legitimate traffic.
  • The assault lasted 45 seconds, delivering roughly 37.4 terabytes of junk data, and peaked at 45,097 unique source IPs per second, making it the largest attack recorded.
  • This event confirms the rising threat to hosting providers and critical internet infrastructure, suggesting continued escalation in DDoS attack scale and sophistication.
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In 45 seconds, 37,000 gigabytes of data were sent to the target's servers. The identity of the perpetrator and the target was not disclosed.

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A DDoS attack has attempted to knock down the infrastructure of a Cloudflare client, flooding them with 7.3 Tbps of data, the most brutal figure ever recorded.

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01net broke the news in on Friday, June 20, 2025.
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