We’re only three weeks into 2025, and it’s already shaping up to be the year of Internet of Things-driven DDoSes. Reports are rolling in of threat actors infecting thousands of home and office routers, web cameras, and other Internet-connected devices. Here is a sampling of research released since the first of the year. Lax security, ample bandwidth A post on Tuesday from content-delivery network Cloudflare reported on a recent distributed denia…

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The Internet is (once again) awash with IoT botnets delivering record DDoSes

Cloudflare says 5.6Tbps DDoS attack lasted 80 seconds and did no damage

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World's largest DDoS attack blocked, Cloudflare claims

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Cloudflare claims to have mitigated biggest DDoS attack on record with requests flying in from 5,500 IP addresses per second

Cloudflare blocked 21.3 million DDoS attacks in 2024, including a record-breaking 5.6 terabit-per-second strike that targeted an Asian internet service provider last October. The yearly total marked a 53% increase from 2023. 
The 80-second October attack, which originated from over 13,000 compromised Internet of Things devices running Mirai malware variant, highlighted an alarming trend: hyper-volumetric attacks exceeding 1 terabit per second gr…

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DDoS Attacks Soar 53% To 21.3 Million, Cloudflare Reports

Cloudflare says the attack against an East Asian ISP came from 13,000 devices infected with a variant of the notorious Mirai malware.

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Botnet Unleashes Record-Breaking 5.6Tbps DDoS Attack

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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Cloudflare mitigated a record-breaking 5.6 Tbps DDoS attack

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… Read more → The post Mirai Botnet Launches Record 5.6 Tbps DDoS Attack with 13,000+ IoT Device appeared first on IT Security News.

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Mirai Botnet Launches Record 5.6 Tbps DDoS Attack with 13,000+ IoT Device

Cloudflare has countered the most powerful DDoS attack ever recorded. Launched by a botnet that took control of 13,000 devices, the attack aimed to bring down an Asian telecom operator.

Cloudflare a contré la plus puissante attaque DDoS jamais enregistrée. Lancée par un botnet qui a pris le contrôle de 13 000 appareils, cette offensive visait à mettre à terre un opérateur de télécommunications d'Asie.

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Record cyberattack: Cloudflare blocks the most powerful DDoS attack ever seen

By Dan Goodin We’re only three weeks into 2025, and it’s already shaping up to be the year of Internet of Things-driven DDoSes. Reports are rolling in of threat actors infecting thousands of home and office routers, web cameras, and other Internet-connected devices. Here is a sampling of research released since the first of the year. Lax security, ample bandwidth A post on Tuesday from content-delivery network Cloudflare reported on a recent dis…

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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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