The tech giant said it was the largest. Azure has blocked its largest ddos attack to date, a 15.72 tbps strike linked to the aisuru iot botnet that also surged to nearly 3.64 billion packets per second and targeted a single cloud. Microsoft says the aisuru botnet launched a 15.7 tbps ddos on azure from 500k ips, using massive udp floods peaking at 3.6 b pps Microsoft has said it successfully mitigated, “the largest ddos attack ever observed in the cloud” after cybercriminals running the aisuru botnet targeted a single endpoint, located in australia. Microsoft's azure cloud has mitigated the largest ddos attack in history at close to 16 tbps from the aisuru botnet At its peak, the attack used over 500,000 connected devices to hit the azure.
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