Gcore Mitigates Record-Breaking 6 Tbps DDoS Attack

Gcore mitigated a massive, short-burst UDP DDoS attack that peaked at 6 Tbps and 5.3 Bpps against a gaming hosting provider; traffic was largely sourced from Brazil and the US and attributed to the AISURU botnet. The incident underscores a trend of increasing scale and sophistication in DDoS campaigns and the need for adaptive, edge-layer and AI-driven defenses, while Gcore’s global DDoS protection absorbed the attack without service interruption.