13.5M Device Botnet Drives 2 Tbps DDoS Attacks on FinTech, Qrator Finds

A new Qrator Labs report reveals that the largest DDoS botnet has grown to 13.5 million devices, and…...

DoJ Disrupts 3 Million-Device IoT Botnets Behind Record 31.4 Tbps Global DDoS Attacks

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ on Thursday announced the disruption of command-and-control C2 infrastructure used by several Internet of Things IoT botnets like AISURU, Kimwolf, JackSkid, and Mossad as part of a court-authorized law enforcement operation. The effort also saw authorities from...

Scalable Ultrafast Random Bit Generation Using Wideband Chaos-Based Entropy Sources

The exponential growth of data transmission and processing speeds in modern digital infrastructure requires entropy sources capable of producing large volumes of true randomness for information security. Chaotic emissions from semiconductor lasers are attractive in this context because of their...

Record 29.7 Tbps DDoS Attack Linked to AISURU Botnet with up to 4 Million Infected Hosts

Cloudflare on Wednesday said it detected and mitigated the largest ever distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack that measured at 29.7 terabits per second Tbps. The activity, the web infrastructure and security company said, originated from a DDoS botnet-for-hire known as AISURU, which has been...

Microsoft Azure Blocks 15.72 Tbps Aisuru Botnet DDoS Attack

Microsoft Azure halted a record 15.72 Tbps DDoS attack from the Aisuru botnet exposing risks created by exposed home devices exploited in large-scale cyber attacks...

Gcore Mitigates Record-Breaking 6 Tbps DDoS Attack

Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 14th October 2025, CyberNewsWire...

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...

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...

Massive 7.3 Tbps DDoS Attack Delivers 37.4 TB in 45 Seconds, Targeting Hosting Provider

Cloudflare on Thursday said it autonomously blocked the largest distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack ever recorded, which hit a peak of 7.3 terabits per second Tbps. The attack, which was detected in mid-May 2025, targeted an unnamed hosting provider. "Hosting providers and critical Internet...

From Megabits to Terabits: Gcore Radar Warns of a New Era of DDoS Attacks

As we enter 2024, Gcore has released its latest Gcore Radar report, a twice-annual publication in which the company releases internal analytics to track DDoS attacks. Gcore's broad, internationally distributed network of scrubbing centers allows them to follow attack trends over time. Read on to...

Akamai Focused on What's Next Following New Traffic Milestone

Akamai hit a new milestone last week when web traffic delivered across our edge network peaked at 200 terabits per second Tbps...

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...

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...