World’s largest DDoS attack blocked, Cloudflare claims

• Cloudflare says it blocked a 5.6Tbps DDoS attack in October 2024
• The attack came from a Mirai botnet
• It included 13,000 IPs, and lasted 80 seconds

Cloudflare has claimed it recently blocked the largest Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack ever recorded.

In a blog post, the company said that in late October 2024, its defense mechanisms blocked a 5.6Tbps UDP (User Datagram Protocol) DDoS attack. To put things into perspective, the (now) second-largest DDoS attack ever was 3.8Tbps, also blocked by Cloudflare, also in October 2024.