Attacks were targeting financial services, internet, and telecommunication industries.
A month-long campaign of over a hundred hyper-volumetric level three and four DDoS attacks have been mitigated, with many exceeding two billion packets per second (Bpps) and three terabits per second (Tbps).
According to Cloudflare, the largest attack peaked 3.8 Tbps — the largest ever disclosed publicly. Specifically, the DDoS attacks were targeting multiple customers in the financial services, internet, and telecommunication industries, among others.
This attack campaign targeted bandwidth saturation during September, as well as exhausting in-line applications and devices.
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Dan Raywood is a B2B journalist with 25 years of experience, including covering cybersecurity for the past 17 years. He has extensively covered topics from Advanced Persistent Threats and nation-state hackers to major data breaches and regulatory changes.
He has spoken at events including 44CON, Infosecurity Europe, RANT Forum, BSides Scotland, Steelcon and the National Cyber Security Show, and served as editor of SC Media UK, Infosecurity Magazine and IT Security Guru. He was also an analyst with 451 Research and a product marketing lead at Tenable.
