It comes after an ‘unprecedented surge in hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks’ in recent months.
A hacker this week launched a new record-breaking DDoS attack, just weeks after Cloudflare thwarted the previous record-setting assault.
The attack, which reached 4.2Tbps, occurred on Monday and targeted an unnamed US service provider, according to Cloudflare, an internet infrastructure company that also supplies DDoS protection services.
The assault exceeded the 3.8Tbps DDoS that Cloudflare encountered in late September and briefly ranked as the most powerful “volumetric” distributed denial-of-service attack on record.
