Cloudflare blocks largest recorded DDoS attack peaking at 3.8Tbps

In a monumental escalation of attack magnitude, Cloudflare autonomously mitigated a record-smashing 3.8 terabits per second hyper-volumetric DDoS attack lasting 65 seconds, surpassing Microsoft's previous record, with threat actors exploiting global infected devices, particularly Asus routers and Mikrotik systems, and leveraging CUPS vulnerabilities in Linux for potential amplification of such attacks.