Mirai Botnet Launches Record 5.6 Tbps DDoS Attack with 13,000+ IoT Devices

Web infrastructure and security company Cloudflare on Tuesday said it detected and blocked a 5.6 Terabit per second Tbps distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack, the largest ever attack to be reported to date. The UDP protocol-based attack took place on October 29, 2024, targeting one of its...