Cloudflare Mitigated a 22.2tbps Attack
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Cloudflare mitigated a record-breaking 22.2Tbps DDoS attack, continuing their trend of handling large-scale attacks; the story received little discussion on HN, with only one comment.
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this is my headline:
How Cloudflare DDoS attacks increase annually.
here is the other, click on this and read the same stuff by the same people, except the numbers have changed.
absolutely boring as fuck.
Oct 2024: How Cloudflare auto-mitigated world record 3.8 Tbps DDoS attack
June 2025: how Cloudflare blocked a monumental 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack
Sept 2025: Cloudflare Blocks Record-Breaking 11.5 Tbps DDoS Attack
the latest one:
Cloudflare Mitigated Record-Breaking 22.2 Tbps DDoS Attack
I love DDoS attacks, it sounds so "the future" when people have finally had enough and take back control.
Just imagaine me, a retired psychotherapist geting headlines like that:
Local psychotherapist helps person with their depression and they are now well again!
Fuck me!