Cloudflare Thwarts Record-Setting 11.5 Tbps DDoS Attack, Lock Down Your IoT Devices Now

Cloudflare just announced on X that it blocked the highest DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack in history, which was an 11.5 Terabits per second DDoS attack that came as a UDP (User Datagram Protocol) flood. It was brief, about 35 seconds long, but slammed resources at over 5.1 billion packets per second.
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