The attack included “over one hundred hyper-volumetric L3/4 DDoS attacks”, many of which exceeded 2 billion packets per second (Bpps), and 3 terabits pe

The scale of the attack shows an ever-increasing amplification of distributed denial-of-service attempts, aided in part by the growing number of vulnerable or poorly secured IoT devices.

Security outfit Cloudflare said it stopped a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The victims were entities within the financial services, internet, and telecommunications sectors.

During a distributed denial-of-service campaign targeting organizations in the financial services, internet, and telecommunications sectors, volumetric attacks peaked at 3.8 terabits per second, the largest publicly recorded to date.

Cloudflare has disclosed that it mitigated a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 3.8 terabits per second (Tbps) and lasted 65 seconds.

Content distribution network Cloudflare announced on Wednesday that it had recently successfully "auto-mitigated" a record-breaking Distributed Denial of

Cloudflare announces that its DDoS protection thwarted a record 3.8 Tbps attack autonomously, showcasing its capability to handle massive threats without intervention.

The attack came from a botnet comprising hijacked Asus and MikroTik routers, along with DVRs and web servers, according to Cloudflare.