Internet infrastructure provider and global cloud platform, Cloudflare, recently prevented a record-breaking Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack from causing any damage.
In a short announcement published on X, Cloudflare said its defenses “have been working overtime” over the past few weeks, autonomously blocking “hundreds of hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks.” Among them was an attack that reached peaks of 5.1 Bpps and 11.5 Tbps. Bpps (Billions of Packets per Second) measures the rate of packets sent to the target and indicates how fast the attacker is overwhelming network devices.
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