Cloudflare Crushes Colossal 22.2 Tbps DDoS Attack: Can Your Provider Keep Up?
Cloudflare just swatted away the largest DDoS attack ever recorded, peaking at a mind-boggling 22.2 Tbps. That’s like trying to stream 9,350 HD movies all at once! Can your scrubbing capacity handle that?
Hot Take:
Looks like cyber-attackers just can’t resist upping the ante in their never-ending game of “Beat the Bandwidth.” But sorry, evil geniuses, Cloudflare just took home the championship belt for most epic DDoS takedown. Maybe next time, try sending them a nice postcard instead of a digital tsunami?
Key Points:
- Cloudflare mitigated a record-breaking DDoS attack peaking at 22.2 Tbps and 10.6 billion packets per second.
- Just a few weeks earlier, Cloudflare handled a DDoS attack peaking at 11.5 Tbps.
- The latest attack is 12% larger than Cloudflare’s previous record and 1 Tbps more than Brian Krebs’ reported attack.
- Earlier in 2025, Cloudflare mitigated another massive attack, peaking at 7.3 Tbps.
- Cloudflare remains a significant player in the cybersecurity world, handling hyper-volumetric attacks autonomously.
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