Web infrastructure and security company Cloudflare disclosed this week that it halted a 2.5 Tbps distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack launched by a Mirai botnet.
Characterizing it as a “multi-vector attack consisting of UDP and TCP floods,” researcher Omer Yoachimik said the DDoS attack targeted the Minecraft server Wynncraft in Q3 2022.
“The entire 2.5 Tbps attack lasted about 2 minutes,
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