Massive 7. 3 Tbps DDoS Attack Delivers 37. 4 TB in 45 Seconds . . . Cloudflare on Thursday said it autonomously blocked the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack ever recorded, which hit a peak of 7 3 terabits per second (Tbps) The attack, which was detected in mid-May 2025, targeted an unnamed hosting provider "Hosting providers and critical
Defending the Internet: how Cloudflare blocked a monumental 7 . . . In mid-May 2025, Cloudflare blocked the largest DDoS attack ever recorded: a staggering 7 3 terabits per second (Tbps) This comes shortly after the publication of our DDoS threat report for 2025 Q1 on April 27, 2025, where we highlighted attacks reaching 6 5 Tbps and 4 8 billion packets per second (pps)
Cloudflare Thwarts Record-Breaking 7. 3 Tbps DDoS Attack In May 2025, Cloudflare successfully mitigated the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack ever recorded, peaking at a staggering 7 3 terabits per second The volumetric assault , which lasted under a minute but delivered 37 4 terabytes of traffic, was autonomously blocked by Cloudflare’s global mitigation systems without human
Record-Breaking 7. 3 Tbps DDoS Attack Targets Hosting Provider Cloudflare noted that the 7 3 Tbps attack managed to deliver 37 4 Tb of traffic — the equivalent of over 9,000 HD movies — in just 45 seconds “The attack carpet-bombed an average of 21,925 destination ports of a single IP address owned and used by our customer, with a peak of 34,517 destination ports per second,” the company explained
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