Comment on What is happening?

bizarroland@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• 9limmer@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yikes!

  techradar.com/…/cloudflare-says-it-has-once-again…

  Cloudflare has said it recently successfully stopped the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack ever recorded. The attack reached 22.2 terabits per second and 10.6 billion packets per second, setting a new world record.

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  • ekZepp@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Holy shit. But it lasted only 40 seconds… This smell like a field test for something worse.

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    • Sailing7@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Might be, yes. But that suuurely cost a fuckton of money.

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• slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  When isn’t there one going?

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  • bizarroland@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I mean, yes, but this one is really huge. I think it’s in the trillions of source nodes, if I understand the blurb I saw about it.

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• poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “Somehow”… seems to be caused by using centralized MitM Clownflare that supposedly protects against DDOS 🙄

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