Moobot vs. Gatebot: Cloudflare Automatically Blocks Botnet DDoS Attack Topping At 654 Gbps

This post details the automatic detection and mitigation of a 654 Gbps UDP-based DDoS attack generated by the Moobot botnet, targeting a Magic Transit customer. It highlights the effectiveness of Cloudflare's Gatebot and dosd systems in mitigating volumetric attacks without human intervention, leveraging the global network capacity of over 42 Tbps and Anycast routing. The post also describes Moobot's self-propagation and synchronized attack capabilities, and the data collection methods used by Cloudflare's DDoS protection systems.