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How Cloudflare Auto-Mitigated World Record 3.8 Tbps DDoS Attack

Customers using Cloudflare's HTTP reverse proxy services like WAF and CDN are automatically protected from the largest DDoS attack ever disclosed publicly by any organization.

October 03, 2024 •

Since early September, Cloudflare's DDoS protection systems have been combating a month-long campaign of hyper-volumetric L3/4 DDoS attacks. Cloudflare’s defenses mitigated over one hundred hyper-volumetric L3/4 DDoS attacks throughout the month, with many exceeding 2 billion packets per second (Bpps) and 3 terabits per second (Tbps). The largest attack peaked 3.8 Tbps — the largest ever disclosed publicly by any organization. Detection and mitigation was fully autonomous.

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How Cloudflare Auto-Mitigated World Record 3.8 Tbps DDoS Attack

Customers using Cloudflare's HTTP reverse proxy services like WAF and CDN are automatically protected from the largest DDoS attack ever disclosed publicly by any organization.