Recently, Cloudflare announced it successfully mitigated the largest DDoS attack ever recorded, which peaked at an astonishing 37.5 TB of junk traffic within a mere 45 seconds. This attack attempted to target more than 34,000 destination ports simultaneously, utilizing a method known as a UDP packet flood.

Such attacks are designed to overwhelm servers by inundating them with requests, crippling their normal functionality. In this case, the data flow was so vast that it could be compared to trying to load more than 260 copies of Baldur’s Gate 3 onto a single SSD in less than a minute.

According to Grant Bourzikas, Cloudflare’s Chief Security Officer, this incident underscores a worrying trend of increasing attack volumes, especially in recent months. The surge in DDoS activities highlights the escalating challenges faced by cybersecurity firms in safeguarding servers and users from malicious traffic.