Seems like it was only the other week I was writing about Cloudflare throwing up its shields against a record-breaking DDoS attack—because it was. Yup, an attack pelting the servers with 11.5 Tbps (terabits per second) of data in less than a minute is more than enough to make me break out in a sweat. But Cloudflare have now shared they've mitigated an even larger-scale attack.
Earlier this week, Cloudflare shared via X that it had "autonomously blocked hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks twice as large as anything seen on the Internet before." This reached a peak of 10.6 Bpps (that's billion packets per second), battering Cloudflare's defences with 22.2 Tbps of data. Yes, that's almost twice as large as the attack reported earlier this month.
