Cloudflare says it stopped largest DDoS attack on record

Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare said that over the weekend it detected and mitigated the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack ever recorded.

The 71 million request-per-second (rps) DDoS attack is more than 35% larger than the previously reported record of 46 million rps in June 2022. Such attacks work by flooding targeted websites with junk traffic, making them unreachable.

The newly observed attack was followed by dozens of others that peaked at 50-70 million rps, according to a blog post released …

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