Cloudflare says it mitigated a record-breaking 17.2M rps DDoS attack
20-Aug-2021
Web infrastructure and website security company Cloudflare on Thursday disclosed that it mitigated the largest ever volumetric distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack recorded to date.
That’s originate from a network of malwareinfected systems — consisting of computers, servers, and IoT devices — enabling threat actors to seize control and coopt the machines into a botnet capable of generating an influx of junk traffic directed against the victim.
