Microsoft says Azure was hit with a massive DDoS attack launched from over 500000 IP addresses

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Microsoft Azure Faces 15.7 Tbps DDoS Attack from Aisuru Botnet Microsoft Azure was targeted by a DDoS attack reaching 15.72 Tbps, launched from over 500,000 IP addresses by the Aisuru botnet. The attack utilized high-rate UDP floods, specifically targeting a public IP address in Australia, and peaked at nearly 3.64 billion packets per second. 22 sources 42