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   BrianKrebs (briankrebs@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 17-May-2025 16:26:43 JST BrianKrebs

   I am reliably informed by Google Shield that my site krebsonsecurity.com on Monday was the target of the biggest DDoS attack Google has ever had to deal with, clocking in at ~6.3 Tbps. This is not quite a record; apparently, an attack Cloudflare had to deal with in April is the largest known DDoS to date -- at ~6.5 Tbps.

   It's been a while since we've seen a big DDoS. For reference, this one was about 10x the size of the Mirai botnet attack that launched a record DDoS against my site in 2016, knocking it offline for nearly 4 days until I got the site behind Google Sheild.

   I'll know more in a bit. Below is the CF blog about their April attack.

   https://blog.cloudflare.com/ddos-threat-report-for-2025-q1/#hyper-volumetric-attacks-continue-spill-into-q2

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     Kevin Beaumont (gossithedog@cyberplace.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-May-2025 16:26:43 JST Kevin Beaumont

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     @briankrebs What have you written about lately? 😅

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     System Adminihater (systemadminihater@cyberplace.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-May-2025 19:40:18 JST System Adminihater

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     • Kevin Beaumont

     @GossiTheDog @briankrebs I wonder how many attacks cloudflare employees were responsible for?