Cloudflare recently blocked yet another record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, which peaked at 7.3 terabits per second (Tbps). Previous record-breaking DDoS attacks seen by Cloudflare reached 5.6 Tbps and 6.5 Tbps. Cybersecurity blogger Brian Krebs reported last month that his website had been targeted in a 6.3 Tbps attack., Cloudflare says it mitigated a record-breaking distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack in May 2025 that peaked at 7.3 Tbps, targeting a hosting provider. DDoS attacks flood targets with , A Massive Distributed Denial-Of-Service (ddos) Attack reached A Record-Breaking 7.3 Terabits Per Second, Threatening Internet Stability. Cloudflare, A Leading Internet Security firm, Reported The Unprecedented Cyber Assault, Which Highlighted The Growing Sophistication And Scale Of Ddos Attacks. Record-Breaking Traffic Volume, The LockBit ransomware site was breached, database dump was leaked online | Cisco fixed a critical flaw in its IOS XE Wireless Controller | U.S. CISA adds GoVision device flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog | Polish authorities arrested 4 people behind DDoS-for-hire platforms | Play ransomware affiliate leveraged zero-day to , The 7.3 Tbps attack was a multivector DDoS attack. Around 99.996% of the attack traffic was categorized as UDP floods. However, the remaining 0.004%, which accounted for 1.3 GB of the attack traffic, were identified as QOTD reflection attacks, Echo reflection attack, NTP reflection attack, Mirai UDP flood attack, Portmap flood, and RIPv1 amplification attacks., .