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Defending the Internet: how Cloudflare blocked a monumental 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack
https://blog.cloudflare.com/defending-the-internet-how-cloudflare-blocked-a-monumental-7-3-tbps-ddos/
In mid-May 2025, blocked the largest DDoS attack ever recorded: a staggering 7.3 terabits per second (Tbps).
Added 3 weeks ago
KrebsOnSecurity Hit With Near-Record 6.3 Tbps DDoS
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/05/krebsonsecurity-hit-with-near-record-6-3-tbps-ddos/
KrebsOnSecurity last week was hit by a near record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that clocked in at more than 6.3 terabits of data per second (a terabit is one trillion bits of data). The brief attack appears to have been…
Added 1 month ago
Internet Archive hacked data breach impacts 31 million users
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/internet-archive-hacked-data-breach-impacts-31-million-users/
Internet Archive's "The Wayback Machine" has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication database containing 31 million unique records.
Added 1 month ago
The Internet Archive is under attack with a popup claiming a ‘catastrophic’ breach - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/9/24266419/internet-archive-ddos-attack-pop-up-message
The Internet Archive has suffered a data breach affecting 31 million accounts and is now offline after its site was defaced and DDoS’d.
Added 1 month ago
How Cloudflare auto-mitigated world record 3.8 Tbps DDoS attack
https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-cloudflare-auto-mitigated-world-record-3-8-tbps-ddos-attack/
Over the past couple of weeks, Cloudflare's DDoS protection systems have automatically and successfully mitigated multiple hyper-volumetric L3/4 DDoS attacks exceeding 3 billion packets per second (Bpps). Our systems also automatically mitigated multiple attacks exceeding 3 terabits per second (Tbps), with the largest ones exceeding 3.65 Tbps. The scale of these attacks is unprecedented.
Added 1 month ago