Cloudflare blocks almighty DDoS attack launched by Mirai botnet
Cloudflare blocks almighty DDoS attack launched by Mirai botnet Attacks are only going to get bigger, believes Cloudflare When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Web giantCloudflarehas reportedly detected and mitigated a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that peaked just below 2Tbps, making it potentially the largest ever seen. The company says that the mammoth attack was launched from approximately 15,000 bots running a variant of the original Mirai code on Internet of Things(IoT)devices andunpatched GitLab instances....