DDoS Botnet Aisuru Blankets US ISPs in Record DDoS

The world's largest and most disruptive botnet is now drawing a majority of its firepower from compromised Internet-of-Things IoT devices hosted on U.S. Internet providers like AT &T, Comcast and Verizon , new evidence suggests. Experts say the heavy concentration of infected devices at U.S...

Cloudflare Blocks Record 22.2 Tbps DDoS Attack

Cloudflare stopped a record 22.2 Tbps DDoS attack, showing how massive these threats have become and why strong DDoS attack protection is essential...

1.5 billion packets per second DDoS attack detected with FastNetMon

London, United Kingdom, 11th September 2025, CyberNewsWire...

USN-7737-1 linux-azure, linux-azure-6.8, linux-azure-nvidia vulnerabilities

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - ARM64 architecture; - PowerPC architecture; - S390 architecture; - x86 architecture; - Block layer subsystem; -...

Cloudflare Blocks Record-Breaking 11.5 Tbps DDoS Attack

Cloudflare on Tuesday said it automatically mitigated a record-setting volumetric distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack that peaked at 11.5 terabits per second Tbps. "Over the past few weeks, we've autonomously blocked hundreds of hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks, with the largest reaching peaks...

Largest DDoS Attack to Date

It was a recently unimaginable 7.3 Tbps: The vast majority of the attack was delivered in the form of User Datagram Protocol packets. Legitimate UDP-based transmissions are used in especially time-sensitive communications, such as those for video playback, gaming applications, and DNS lookups. It...

Real-Time Bit-Level Encryption of Full High-Definition Video without Diffusion

Despite the widespread adoption of Shannon's confusion-diffusion architecture in image encryption, the implementation of diffusion to sequentially establish inter-pixel dependencies for attaining plaintext sensitivity constrains algorithmic parallelism, while the execution of multiple rounds of...

Important: kernel

Issue Overview: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Squashfs: check the inode number is not the invalid value of zero CVE-2024-26982 In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cachefiles: Fix NULL pointer dereference in object-file...

Linux kernel 资源管理错误漏洞

Linux kernel is the kernel used by Linux, the open source operating system of the Linux Foundation in the United States. A resource management error vulnerability exists in Linux kernel, which stems from a post-release reuse of the pps driver...

UBUNTU-CVE-2021-47267

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: fix various gadget panics on 10gbps cabling usbassigndescriptors is called with 5 parameters, the last 4 of which are the usbdescriptorheader for: full-speed USB1.1 - 12Mbps including USB1.0 low-speed @ 1.5Mbps, high-speed...

SDX management error "Packets per second value cannot be less than 1"

On SDX, when making changes to instance settings or licensing, the error "Packets per second value cannot be less than 1" is displayed...

Gcore Thwarts Massive 650 Gbps DDoS Attack on Free Plan Client

At the beginning of January, Gcore faced an incident involving several L3/L4 DDoS attacks with a peak volume of 650 Gbps. Attackers exploited over 2000 servers belonging to one of the top three cloud providers worldwide and targeted a client who was using a free CDN plan. However, due to Gcore's...

Massive HTTP DDoS Attack Hits Record High of 71 Million Requests/Second

Web infrastructure company Cloudflare on Monday disclosed that it thwarted a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack that peaked at over 71 million requests per second RPS. "The majority of attacks peaked in the ballpark of 50-70 million requests per second RPS with the largest...

Massive HTTP DDoS Attack Hits Record High of 71 Million Requests/Second

Web infrastructure company Cloudflare on Monday disclosed that it thwarted a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack that peaked at over 71 million requests per second RPS. "The majority of attacks peaked in the ballpark of 50-70 million requests per second RPS with the largest...

DDoS Chart Toppers—BPS, PPS and RPS Greatest Hits

New to the scene, monster-sized botnet Mēris is raising some eyebrows with giant requests per second rps attacks as shared by Cloudflare 17.2M rps, reported August 19, Yandex peaking at 21.8M rps on September 5, and KrebsOnSecurity 2M rps on September 9. Some commentary came in on Slashdot, The...

Fast Random Bit Generation

Science has a paper and commentary on generating 250 random terabits per second with a laser. I dont know how cryptographically secure they are, but that can be cleaned up with something like Fortuna. EDITED TO ADD 3/12: Here are free versions of the paper and the commentary...

Mainstream European bank hit by largest ever PPS based DDoS attack

By Waqas The DDoS attack on the bank was recorded in packets-per-second Pps and... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Mainstream European bank hit by largest ever PPS based DDoS attack...

Largest Ever Recorded Packet Per Second-Based DDoS Attack Mitigated by Akamai

On June 21, 2020, Akamai mitigated the largest packet per second PPS distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack ever recorded on the Akamai platform. The attack generated 809 million packets per second Mpps, targeting a large European bank...

Record 0-Second SLA PPS Mitigation

Record-High 312 Mpps Attack Mitigated in 0 Seconds On May 2, 2020, Akamai blocked a large PPS-focused attack against one of our financial services customers in 0 seconds, utilizing a proactive mitigation posture. This was one of the largest PPS levels we have on record, and the biggest mitigated ...

At 21 Tbps, Reaching New Levels of IPv6 Traffic

The global adoption of IPv6 is important to the future of the internet and Akamai has been committed to helping move IPv6 deployment forward ever since we launched production IPv6 support in 2012...