Cloudflare has mitigated the biggest distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on record. Here's what you need to know.

Cloudflare says the attack against an East Asian ISP came from 13,000 devices infected with a variant of the notorious Mirai malware.

We’re only three weeks into 2025, and it’s already shaping up to be the year of Internet of Things-driven DDoSes. Reports are rolling in of threat actors infecting thousands of home and office routers,

Cloudflare blocked a 5.6 Tbps DDoS attack from a Mirai botnet, with 1+ Tbps attacks surging 1,885% in Q4 2024.