Cloudflare report highlights devastating DDoS attacks on VoIP services and several ‘record-setting HTTP attacks’


Cloudflare released its Q3 DDoS Attack Trends report this week, capping a record-setting quarter that saw a number of devastating attacks on VoIP services.

Cloudflare researchers said they saw the several “record-setting HTTP DDoS attacks, terabit-strong network-layer attacks and one of the largest botnets ever deployed (Meris),” noting the emergence of ransom DDoS attacks on voice over IP (VoIP) service providers. The attack on Bandwidth.com left dozens of companies scrambling to deal with outages.

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Source: ZDNet