Overview
- The 69-second attack used UDP carpet-bombing, blasting roughly 15,000 destination ports per second with randomized packet attributes, and the target was not disclosed.
- Cloudflare attributes the assault to AISURU, which it estimates at 1–4 million infected routers and IoT devices operating as a rentable botnet.
- Since January, Cloudflare has logged 2,867 AISURU attacks, including 1,304 hyper‑volumetric incidents in Q3 that were mitigated autonomously.
- Short, high‑volume bursts increasingly overwhelm networks, with most DDoS events ending in under 10 minutes yet causing collateral ISP disruption and lengthy recovery.
- Other recent peaks included a 14.1 billion‑pps flood, with attack sources clustering in Asian countries and targets spanning telecom, gaming, hosting, financial services, and AI firms.