Overview

• The surge lasted about 35 seconds and came during weeks of elevated attack activity that Cloudflare says it blocked automatically.
• Cloudflare measured a peak of 5.1 billion packets per second in the wave, highlighting the emphasis on extreme packet rates as well as bandwidth.
• The company reports its globally distributed mitigation handled the events in real time without manual intervention.
• The new peak tops earlier benchmarks the firm disclosed in June 2025 (7.3 Tbps) and October 2024 (3.8 Tbps and 2 billion pps).
• Cloudflare has logged major growth in DDoS activity, including 21.3 million mitigations in 2024 and multi‑vector campaigns using Mirai-style and amplification techniques.