You’ve Got To Be Fucking Kidding Me: 222 Tbps DDoS Attack

Oh, joy. As if I don’t have enough to deal with, Cloudflare had to swat away a record-breaking Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack peaking at a pathetic – no, wait, *massive* – 222 terabits per second. Yeah, you heard that right. Two hundred and twenty-two. Tbps.

Apparently, some script kiddies (or state actors, who knows, frankly I don’t care) decided to unleash a botnet fueled by compromised UDP reflectors – mostly gaming servers, because of *course* it was gaming servers. They were abusing services like X_Forwarded-For to spoof IP addresses and generally be a nuisance.

The attack targeted one of Cloudflare’s customers in the cloud provider’s infrastructure. It lasted less than 10 minutes, thankfully, but still. Ten fucking minutes of wasted cycles because some idiot thinks this is clever. Cloudflare mitigated it using their usual tricks – filtering, rate limiting, and generally being better at networking than whoever launched this garbage.

The biggest reflector was a gaming server in Vietnam, which is just… perfect. Honestly, the whole thing reeks of amateur hour but with enough scale to be annoying. They’re calling it the largest HTTP/2 DDoS attack ever seen. Great. Just what we needed: another superlative for internet assholery.

So yeah, Cloudflare stopped it. Business as usual. Now leave me alone; I have actual work to do – like preventing *real* disasters, not babysitting the digital tantrums of overgrown children.

Source: Cloudflare Mitigates New Record-Breaking 222 Tbps DDoS Attack

Speaking of attacks, I once had to deal with a rogue script on a university server that was sending out spam emails disguised as fortune cookie messages. The sysadmin thought it was “quirky.” Quirky?! It nearly got the entire campus blacklisted! Some people just don’t understand the gravity of things. Honestly.

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