Attack data linked the event to the growing AISURU botnet infrastructure
6 Tbps DDoS attack against Gcore ranks among the world’s largest incidents
Gcore’s defenses absorbed the flood using over 210 global Points of Presence
Over half the malicious traffic originated from unsecured networks in Brazil
A gaming hosting provider has reportedly been hit by one of the largest Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks ever recorded.
The attack ranks among the top ten DDoS incidents in history, exposing the growing risks facing online service providers and gaming infrastructure.
The company hit, Gcore, says the event was a “short-burst volumetric flood” lasting between 30 and 45 seconds and peaking at 6Tbps with 5.3 billion packets per second.A short but powerful DDoS onslaught
The attack primarily used the UDP protocol, a common choice for overwhelming targets with traffic.
Gcore’s analysis revealed that 51% of the malicious data originated in Brazil and nearly 24% came from the United States, suggesting widespread exploitation of unsecured networks across those regions.
