The attack used UDP packets as the main attack vector in order to ‘flood’ the IP address with illegitimate packets that the service will be unable to process, making up around 99.996% of the ...

A DDoS attack is a flood of internet traffic from many different machines. It targets a single device, service, or network with the intent of overwhelming a specific target so that it can’t be used.

According to Cloudflare, this record-setting attack comes amid a dramatic surge in DDoS assaults. In the first quarter of 2025 alone, Cloudflare mitigated 20.5 million DDoS attacks.

Nexusguard’s 2025 DDoS Trends Report showed that while the total number of DDoS attacks increased by just two percent year-over-year (YoY), the average attack size increased by 69 percent, with ...

A Friday distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack hit a record 7.3 terabits per second. Internet security firm Cloudflare says it stopped the 45-second DDoS attack, which translated to roughly ...