Is it a day ending in 'y'? Well then that makes it just about time for Cloudflare to announce it's mitigated yet another record-breaking DDoS attack—this time to the tune of 11.5 Tbps (that's terabits per second) at its peak. Might as well add 'hyper-volumetric DDoS attack' to my list of sleep paralysis nightmares.
Anyway, Cloudflare shared on X that the attack in question was specifically a UDP flood-style attack. Cloudflare have their own helpful explainer of what this style of attack entails, but another way to describe it would be to deploy another of my tried and true club metaphors.
