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Cloudflare Mitigates Biggest Ever DDoS Attack, Which Tried to Pelt Its Target with 11.5 Tbps of Data in Less than a Minute

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On September 2, 2025, Cloudflare revealed that it had blocked an attack of exceptional magnitude, which was described as the highest ever recorded attack, reaching a rate of 11.5 terabits per second. An attack of unprecedented magnitude in the history of piracy Cloudflare's halted attack took the form of a gigantic deluge of packets, characteristic of a DDoS. According to the company, the flow peaked at 11.5 Tbps and about 5.1 billion packets pe…

The Internet security provider Cloudflare claims to have resisted the biggest DDoS attack in history to date. The attack achieved a peak performance of 11.5 terabits per second. Cloudflare announced on Monday via the X short message service that the company successfully averted a record-breaking DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack.The attack reached a bandwidth of 11.5 Tbps and lasted about 35 seconds. UDP Flood from Google Cloud The att…

Cloudflare claims to have neutralized a record-breaking DDoS attack culminating in 11.5 Tbps and 5.1 billion packets per second. The offensive, a UDP flood, lasted about 35 seconds and exceeded by about 60% the previous peak of 7.3 Tbps. Signals converge: shorter, larger attacks, coming from cloud resources and IoT botnets.

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Tom's Hardware broke the news in on Wednesday, September 3, 2025.
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