Massive 31.4 Tbps DDoS attack breaks records: How the 'apex' of botnets could be weaponizing your home devices

ZDNET reports that the Aisuru/Kimwolf botnet—estimated at 1–4 million infected consumer devices—set a public record with a 31.4 Tbps, 200M-requests-per-second DDoS attack; Cloudflare and other vendors attribute widespread targeting of telecoms, ISPs, hosting, gaming, and financial services, note its botnet-for-hire model and multi-use capabilities (DDoS, credential stuffing, proxy rental, web scraping), and warn that insecure consumer IoT and home devices continue to fuel escalation of large-scale internet disruptions.