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The potential for "wide-scale, low-end, localized drone attacks against prized aircraft sitting at airfields" has been a "brewing threat," said defense industry–focused publication The War Zone.

Internet services giant Cloudflare says it mitigated a record number of DDoS attacks in 2024, recording a massive 358% year-over-year jump and a 198% quarter-over-quarter increase.

According to the National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center (CVERC), the U.S. is alleged to be behind more than 170,000 cyber attacks between January 26 and February 14, 2025, followed by ...

Mirai attacks accounted for 6% of all network layer DDoS attacks — a 131% increase QoQ. In 2024 Q4, a Mirai-variant botnet was responsible for the largest DDoS attack on record.

Cloudflare claimed the October 29 UDP attack was launched by a Mirai-variant botnet comprised of 13,000 IoT devices and targeted an East Asia ISP. Although it only lasted 80 seconds, the attack is ...

Cloudflare explains, "Because the duration of most attacks is so short, it is not feasible, in most cases, for a human to respond to an alert, analyze the traffic, and apply mitigation." ...

In 2024, Cloudflare blocked “around 21.3 million DDoS attacks, representing a 53% increase compared with 2023.” The number of DDoS attacks exceeding 1Tbps also grew 1,885% in Q4 from Q3.

Cloudflare's defenses intercepted over 100 hyper-volumetric L3/4 DDoS attacks during the month, many of which exceeded two billion packets per second and three terabits per second (Tbps).

In Cloudflare’s case, the 3.8Tbps assault was part of a month-long hacking campaign that began early last month, and has so far spanned over 100 especially large volumetric DDoS attacks, with ...