Bigger and badder: how DDoS attack sizes have evolved over the last decade

This post details the evolution of DDoS attack sizes over the last decade, highlighting an exponential growth trend in requests per second (rps), packets per second (pps), and bits per second (bps). It analyzes historical data from Google and Cloudflare, showing significant increases in attack volumes and a shift from IoT-based botnets to more powerful VM-based botnets. The post also discusses the challenges in defining individual attacks and how Cloudflare's Connectivity Cloud, with its automated detection and mitigation capabilities, adapts to these evolving threats.