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Cloudflare blocked record-breaking 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack against a hosting provider

Security Affairs

Tbps DDoS attack in May 2025. Tbps DDoS attack in May 2025, 12% greater than its previous peak and 1 Tbps greater than the attack reported by the popular cyber journalist Brian Krebs. The attack targeted a Cloudflare customer, a hosting provider using the company’s DDoS protection solution Magic Transit.

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News alert: Link11’s research shows DDoS attacks are more targeted — and doubled — year-over-year

The Last Watchdog

The latest Link11 European Cyber Report shows an alarming trend: the number of DDoS attacks has more than doubled, and they are shorter, more targeted, and more technically sophisticated. DDoS attacks surge 137% more DDoS attacks on the Link11 network compared to last year.

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Cloudflare blocked a record-breaking 5.6 Tbps DDoS attack

Security Affairs

terabit-per-second (Tbps) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Terabit per second (Tbps) DDoS attack, which is the largest attack ever reported. The previous largest DDoS attack blocked by Cloudflare occurred in October 2024 and peaked at 3.8 Cloudflare announced that it has blocked a record-breaking 5.6

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News Flodrix botnet targets vulnerable Langflow servers

Security Affairs

Attackers exploit CVE-2025-3248 in Langflow servers to deliver Flodrix botnet via downloader scripts, Trend Research reports. Attackers exploit the flaw to run scripts on Langflow servers, downloading and installing Flodrix malware. Threat actors exploit the public PoC code to install Flodrix malware, which can launch DDoS attacks.

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DDoS attacks in Q4 2020

SecureList

While the resource was down, cryptocurrency newbies were invited to download a copy of Bitcoin Core via a torrenting service. In December, Canada’s Laurentian University reported a DDoS attack. Educational institutions are recommended to use anti-DDoS solutions and strong firewall settings, and partner up with ISPs.

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We Must Condemn, Not Celebrate, The Download of Parler’s Data: Hacker Vigilantism May Even Help Criminals More Than Law Enforcement

Joseph Steinberg

Last week, shortly before Amazon took the Parler social network offline by terminating the latter’s hosting services, a hacker allegedly facilitated a download of the social media site’s data. ” Vigilantism undermines the rule of law. Intent matters, as does scale. And, in any case, we must strongly discourage digital vigilantism.

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X users report login troubles as Dark Storm claims cyberattack

Malwarebytes

These attacks, called Distributed Denial of Service or DDoS, attacks, are one of the most common form of cyberattacks online, and have been used to disrupt major companies online services. Keep threats off your devices by downloading Malwarebytes today.

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