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Cloudflare stops new world's largest DDoS attack over Labor Day weekend
This record-smashing DDoS attack was almost 60% larger than the previous largest attack.
Cloudflare says its globally distributed, fully autonomous DDoS mitigation network detected and neutralized the threat in real time, without notable impact on customer services or requiring manual intervention. This operation highlights both the rising sophistication of attack methods and the resilience of modern internet infrastructure defenses, especially Cloudflare's use of real-time packet analysis, fingerprinting, and rapid threat intelligence sharing across its network. These DDoS campaigns increasingly exploit cloud resources and IoT botnets, says Cloudflare, to launch ultra-short but extremely intense hyper-volumetric attacks around the world.
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