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5 Microsoft Azure Blocks Largest DDoS Attack in History — attack equivalent to streaming 3.5 million Netflix movies at once, 15.72 Terabits per Second from 500,000 IP addresses tied to IoT botnet

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Microsoft Azure Blocks Largest DDoS Attack in History — attack equivalent to streaming 3.5 million Netflix movies at once, 15.72 Terabits per Second from 500,000 IP addresses tied to IoT botnet

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 servers with over 3.6 million packets per second to target a single cloud endpoint in Australia.

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