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Record-Breaking DDoS Attack Hits 11.5Tbps

A hacker pulled off a record 11.5Tbps DDoS attack, up 60% from the previous peak. On Monday, internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare reported the record-shattering distributed denial of service ...
SDxCentral

DDoS attacks continue to rise, with attackers eyeing UltraDNS as an attack surface

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are increasingly targeting ultra domain name system (UltraDNS) as a means to breach critical infrastructure. DigiCert’s latest "2025 Radar Brief" revealed ...
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DDoS is the neglected cybercrime that's getting bigger. Let's kill it off

Opinion Agatha Christie stuck a dagger in the notion that crime doesn't pay. With sales of between two and four billion books – fittingly, the exact number is a mystery – she built a career out of ...
TweakTown

Cloudflare blocks record-breaking DDoS attack, billions of packets at 11.5Tbps

TL;DR: Cloudflare recently blocked the largest recorded DDoS attack, peaking at 11.5 Tbps and 5.1 billion packets per second, originating from a UDP flood involving IoT and cloud providers like Google ...
The Daily Dot

Who is Dark Storm Team? Hacking collective takes credit for massive X DDoS attack

When it popped back up, Elon Musk said the site had been hit with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. “There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X,” Musk wrote. “We get attacked ...
Dark Reading

Cloudflare Holds Back the Tide on 11.5Tbps DDoS Attack

Cloudflare has been automatically mitigating hundreds of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, one of which peaked at a whopping 11.5 terabits per second (Tbps). The attack lasted ...
ZDNet

Cloudflare stops new world's largest DDoS attack over Labor Day weekend

The biggest, baddest DDoS attack to date was just fended off. The attack used the trivial, but nasty, UDP flood attack. You must protect yourself against DDoS attacks. Over the Labor Day weekend, ...
TweakTown

'Largest-ever' cloud DDoS attack recorded in Australia, 3.64 billion packets per second

TL;DR: On October 24, 2025, Microsoft Azure in Australia faced the largest recorded DDoS attack, peaking at 15.72 Tbps from the Aisuru botnet. Azure's automatic DDoS Protection successfully mitigated ...
Business Wire

NETSCOUT Reveals Qualitative Shifts in DDoS Attack Sophistication, Infrastructure Capacity, and Threat Actor Capabilities

WESTFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NETSCOUT ® SYSTEMS, INC. (NASDAQ: NTCT), today released its second half of the year 2025 Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Threat Intelligence Report, revealing ...
ZDNet

Arch Linux remains under attack as DDoS enters week 2 - here's a workaround

All Arch Linux sites are under attack. No one knows why Arch is getting smacked around. You can get Arch Linux files and programs from GitHub. We're not even sure who's doing it or exactly how they're ...
CoinTelegraph

Solana under ‘industrial scale’ DDoS attack: Co-founder says it’s ‘bullish’

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko claims the network is facing an industrial-scale 6 Tbps DDoS attack that has shown little visible impact. Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko and several accounts ...
Morningstar

NETSCOUT Reveals Qualitative Shifts in DDoS Attack Sophistication, Infrastructure Capacity, and Threat Actor Capabilities

AI Adoption, coordinated botnets, and persistent hacktivists groups drove millions of attacks NETSCOUT® SYSTEMS, INC. (NASDAQ: NTCT), today released its second half of the year 2025 Distributed Denial ...