Cloudflare thwarts record 22.2 Tbps DDoS attack amid rising botnet threats

Cloudflare has blocked the largest-ever recorded DDoS attack, peaking at 22.2 terabits per second and 10.6 billion packets per second. The 40-second assault, linked to the expanding AISURU botnet, turned hundreds of thousands of everyday devices into weapons. The event underscores how attackers are escalating both bandwidth and packet intensity, pressuring global infrastructure and forcing enterprises to rethink resilience strategies against increasingly distributed threats.