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Cloudflare Mitigates Record 7.3 Tbps DDoS Attack: Largest Ever Recorded
In May 2025, Cloudflare successfully mitigated the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack ever recorded, which peaked at an unprecedented 7.3 terabits per second. The target was a major hosting provider protected by Magic Transit, Cloudflare’s cloud-based traffic filtering service. DDoS attacks, though conceptually simple, are devastating in execution: a barrage of network requests overwhelms a…