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 ...

The attack targeted an unnamed hosting provider using Cloudflare's Magic Transit DDoS protection service and delivered a record-breaking 37.4 terabytes of data in just 45 seconds.

Read more on record-breaking DDoS attacks: Cloudflare Stops Largest HTTP DDoS Attack on Record. Overall, Cloudflare blocked around 21.3 million DDoS attacks in 2024, a 53% annual increase – including ...

In October last year, Cloudflare and Google reported they had mitigated what was previously the largest DDoS attack ever, which had used HTTP requests rather than UDP packets.

Kentik, the network observability company, is expanding its partnership with Cloudflare and offering a new security integration with the company, helping customers ensure network infrastructure ...

In its fourth-quarter DDoS threat report released in January, Cloudflare found that the number of HTTP DDoS attacks increased 79% year-over-year and that the number of volumetric attacks exceeding ...