Microsoft Azure Blocks Largest DDoS Attack in History — attack equivalent to streaming 3.5 million Netflix movies at once, 15.72 Terabits per Second from 500,000 IP addresses tied to IoT botnet

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Microsoft's Azure has mitigated the largest botnet attack in history, with over 500,000 devices used to send up to 15.72 terabits per second to a single cloud endpoint in Australia, which is roughly equivalent to 3.5 million Netflix movies streamed simultaneously per-second.

In a blog post, Microsoft claims the Azure DDoS protection was able to detect the attack and filter the traffic so customers remained unaffected, but urged organizations to validate the security on any internet-facing devices to help prevent future attacks.