https://www.eknix.com/tags/network-security/Recent content in Network Security on Eknix — Web security & performance for the enterpriseHugoen-us© {year} EKNIX LTD. All rights reserved.Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.eknix.com/blog/hyper-volumetric-ddos-2026/Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.eknix.com/blog/hyper-volumetric-ddos-2026/<p>In the closing days of December 2025, during a holiday attack campaign Cloudflare would later name The Night Before Christmas, the largest distributed denial-of-service attack ever recorded arrived on its network, peaked at 31.4 terabits per second, and was gone 35 seconds later. According to <a href="https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/aisuru-botnet-sets-new-record-with-314-tbps-ddos-attack/">the disclosure</a>, the attack was detected and mitigated automatically, without so much as an internal alert. The defenders read about it in their own telemetry. The attackers, most likely, typed one command into a botnet control panel and walked away.</p>