CloudFlare first detected the new botnet on November 23; peaking at 400 Gbps and 172 Mpps, the DDoS attack hammered on targets “non-stop for almost exactly 8.5 hours” before the attack ended.

The last two years have seen multiple record-breaking DDoS attacks. Amazon in June 2020 said it mitigated a 2.3 Terabit per second (Tbps) attack, which was measured in packets per second rather ...

The DDoS attacks are not only larger in scale, but also trickier for security experts to identify and alleviate from vulnerable systems. Before these botnets grew in complexity, the scrubbers were ...

Generally, DDoS attacks are done via botnets - vast networks of compromised endpoints such as routers, smart home devices, and similar. These attacks included traffic from MikroTik devices, DVRs ...

Botnets and DDoS attacks: A deadly duo for security infrastructures A botnet, also known as a network of infected computers or devices, is controlled by a single entity, referred to as the botmaster.

The botnet – which Cloudflare calls Mantis and which is named after the small, razor-legged prawn – generated a short but record-breaking DDoS attack in June that peaked at 26 million HTTPS ...

Cloudflare says it blocked a 5.6Tbps DDoS attack in October 2024 The attack came from a Mirai botnet It included 13,000 IPs, and lasted 80 seconds ...

Botnets are used to send spam, steal passwords, and sometimes to launch DDoS attacks, which flood victims’ servers with unwanted information.

Dubbed MCCrash, the botnet infects Windows machines and devices running various distributions of Linux for use in DDoS attacks. Among the commands the botnet software accepts is one called ATTACK ...

Cloudflare, a web performance company, said that it stopped a record-breaking distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that reached 26 million requests per second last week (rps). A botnet of ...

Botnets are used to send spam, steal passwords, and sometimes to launch DDoS attacks, which flood victims’ servers with unwanted information.