"Record-Breaking DDoS Attack Peaked at 3.8 Tbps, 2.14 Billion Pps"

Cloudflare recently mitigated another record-breaking DDoS attack.  The company says the attack peaked at 3.8 terabits per second (Tbps) and 2.14 billion packets per second (Pps).  The attack was aimed at an unidentified customer of an unnamed hosting provider that uses Cloudflare services.  The previous volumetric DDoS record was set in late 2021 when Microsoft saw an attack that peaked at 3.47 Tbps and a packet rate of 340 million Pps.  The biggest attack previously seen by Cloudflare peaked at 2.6 Tbps. Cloudfare noted that the record-breaking attack was part of a month-long campaign that began in early September. 
The campaign targeted customers in the financial services, telecoms, and internet sectors.  The attacks came from systems around the world, including Vietnam, Russia, Brazil, Spain, and the United States, and they were powered by compromised web servers, DVRs, and routers.  

SecurityWeek reports: "Record-Breaking DDoS Attack Peaked at 3.8 Tbps, 2.14 Billion Pps"