đđCloudflare recently mitigated a record-breaking DDoS attack that peaked at 3.8 terabits per second (Tbps) and lasted 65 seconds. The company reported that throughout September 2024, it dealt with over 100 high-volume L3/4 DDoS attacks, many exceeding 2 billion packets per second (Bpps) and 3 Tbps. These attacks targeted customers in the financial, telecom, and internet sectors but havenât been linked to a specific threat actor.
đŠ đŠ The previous largest DDoS attack, at 3.47 Tbps, occurred in November 2021 against a Microsoft Azure customer in Asia. The recent attacks used the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), with traffic coming from compromised devices in countries like Vietnam, Russia, and the U.S. Cloudflare identified a large botnet, driven by a critical vulnerability (CVE-2024-3080) in ASUS home routers, as the source of the attack.
đđThe goal of these DDoS attacks is to overwhelm a targetâs network bandwidth and CPU, disrupting services. Cloudflare noted that many cloud services and on-premise equipment lack the capacity to handle such large-scale attacks. DDoS attacks on financial services and public utilities have surged by 55% in the past four years, with a 30% increase in volumetric attacks in 2024 alone. Hacktivist groups have fueled this rise, using DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) for command-and-control (C2) to evade detection, further complicating defense efforts.
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