Cloudflare blocked massive 22.2Tbps DDoS attack, surpassing 11.5Tbps record set just weeks earlier
- Cloudflare reports that the DDOS attack recorded has reached a peak at 22.2 tops and 10.6bpps
- The attack only lasted 40 seconds, but equaled a million 4K videos in difficulty
- The image shows automated detection of the DDOS world record holding a advanced force before collapse
Cloudflare said it recently stopped the largest distributed service denial attack (DDOS) never recorded.
The attack reached 22.2 terabits per second and 10.6 billion packs per second, establishing a new world record.
DDOS attacks submerging the system or network resources with traffic, slowing down or reducing access for legitimate users – and although this particular attack was short -lived, of approximately 40 seconds, the volume involved was massive.
No need for manual intervention
BIP computer Compared to the streaming of a million 4K videos at the same time, with a package rate equivalent to each person on earth refreshing a web page once per second.
An image shared by Cloudflare (above) on X showed the attack which increases until the cutting-edge force in a few seconds, then holding stable to more than 22 tops before depositing suddenly.
The company claims that its systems have detected and attenuated the incident independently without manual intervention.
Three weeks earlier, Cloudflare said he had attenuated an attack of 11.5 TB and 5.1 BPPS, which was the largest reported at the time.
More recently, Fastnetmon has announced that it had detected and attenuated a DDOS attack of 1.5 billion per second with traffic, mainly a UDP flood from the leading equipment of compromise customers, including IoT devices and Mikrotik routers.
The latter figure of 22.2 TOPS defines a new bar for DDOS assaults, showing how fast the attack sizes have intensified in recent months.
Cloudflare has not revealed any key detail on the last event, including the source or the target, but he confirmed that the record attack was stopped before sustainable damage can occur.
The attenuation of an attack on this scale is delicate, because firewalls, routers and loading balancers find it difficult to manage such high requests.
Even if the total bandwidth is under control, packet floods can alone disrupt the services.
In April, Cloudflare noted that 2025 was on the right track for record levels of DDOS activity.
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