- Cloudflare reports to stop record DDOS -attack that peaked at 22.2 Tbps and 10.6 BPPS
- The attack lasted only 40 seconds yet equalized streaming of a million 4K videos
- Image displays automated detection of world record DDOS that holds pointed strength before collapse
Cloudflare has said that it recently successfully stopped the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack ever recorded.
The attack reached 22.2 terabits per year. Seconds and 10.6 billion packages per second and set a new world record.
DDOS attacks overwhelm the system or network resources with traffic that slows down or cut access to legitimate users – and although this particular attack was short -lived, only approx. 40 seconds, the volume involved was massive.
No need for manual intervention
Bleeping computer Compared to the streaming of a million 4K videos at the same time, with a package speed similar to any person on the ground who refreshes a web page once a second.
An image shared by cloudflare (above) on X showed the attack that hit top strength in seconds, after which they held stable at more than 22 Tbps before falling sharply.
The company says its systems discovered and diminished the incident autonomously without manual intervention.
Just three weeks earlier, Cloudflare said it diminished an 11.5 Tbps and 5.1 BPP’s attack, which was the biggest reported at the time.
Recently, FastNetmon announced that it had discovered and mitigated a 1.5 billion packages per year. Second DDOS attacks with traffic mainly an UDP flooding that was obtained from compromised customer equipment including IoT devices and microtic routers.
This latest 22.2Tbps figure sets a new beam to DDOS attacks showing how fast attack sizes have escalated in the last few months.
Cloudflare did not reveal any key information about the latest event, including the source or the target, but it confirmed that the record attack was stopped before any lasting damage could occur.
The mitigation of an attack on this scale is difficult as firewalls, routers and load balances are struggling to deal with such high request counts.
Even if the overall bandwidth is under control, packing floods can only interfere with services.
Back in April, Cloudflare noted that 2025 was on its way to record levels of DDOS activity.
