Cloudflare mitigates record 29.7 Tbps DDoS attack by the AISURU botnet

**Cloudflare mitigated a record 29.7 Tbps DDoS attack by the AISURU botnet.** The 69‑second hyper‑volumetric attack is part of a larger pattern described in Cloudflare's Q3 2025 DDoS Threat Report: AISURU is an estimated 1–4 million‑device botnet conducting frequent attacks above 1 Tbps and 1 Bpps, with 2,867 mitigations in 2025 so far. The botnet has targeted telecommunications, gaming, hosting, finance, AI companies, and others; parts of it are sold as botnets‑for‑hire, enabling large-scale disruption at relatively low cost.