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How Cloudflare blocked a monumental 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack

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265 points methuselah_in | 1 comments | 20 Jun 25 18:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.251s | source
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dangoodmanUT ◴[24 Jun 25 23:04 UTC] No.44372006[source]▶
It almost feels like writing about this is exactly what the attacker wants: Free validation and advertisement for exactly what their botnet can do
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1. v5v3 ◴[25 Jun 25 08:55 UTC] No.44375054[source]▶
But now the ip's of their botnet are known, the bot net is weakened.

Also it makes no sense - why throw 7.3tbps at a server, when half of that or less would have the same effect and not exposed your botnet.