The record-breaking DDoS against Cloudflare reached 22.2Tbps, about double the intensity of an earlier attack this month. The company has traced the incident to a powerful botnet called Aisuru.
A new DDoS attack was so massive it packed double the firepower of the previous record-holder.
On Monday, internet infrastructure company Cloudflare reported a distributed denial-of-service attack that lasted over 40 seconds but peaked at a whopping 22.2Tbps while pushing 10.6 billion packets per second
According to Cloudflare, the attack was “twice as large as anything seen on the internet before,” featuring double the intensity of an 11.5Tbps DDoS that the company detected and blocked earlier this month.
The goal of such attacks is to take a website, mobile app, or internet service offline by overwhelming the target with a flood of internet traffic.
