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DDoS attacks surge in early 2025

<p class&equals;"" data-start&equals;"216" data-end&equals;"507">DDoS attacks surged in the first quarter of 2025&comma; rising 198&percnt; from the end of 2024 and a massive 358&percnt; compared to the same time last year&comma; with gaming servers hit the hardest&period; These findings come from a recent report published by Cloudflare&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p data-start&equals;"216" data-end&equals;"507"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-3203" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;wincert&period;net&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;07&sol;hacker&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"426" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"" data-start&equals;"509" data-end&equals;"892">Between January and March 2025&comma; Cloudflare blocked approximately 20&period;5 million DDoS attempts&period; Of those&comma; 6&period;6 million were aimed directly at the company&&num;8217&semi;s infrastructure&period; Outside of that&comma; gaming platforms emerged as the primary targets&comma; with popular titles like <em data-start&equals;"772" data-end&equals;"806">Counter-Strike&colon; Global Offensive<&sol;em>&comma; <em data-start&equals;"808" data-end&equals;"825">Team Fortress 2<&sol;em>&comma; and <em data-start&equals;"831" data-end&equals;"856">Half-Life 2&colon; Deathmatch<&sol;em> experiencing a wave of disruptions&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"" data-start&equals;"894" data-end&equals;"1099">The most intense DDoS attack during this time peaked at 5&period;6 terabits per second&period; However&comma; an even larger attack recorded on April 24th soon broke that record&comma; reaching 5&period;8 terabits per second&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"" data-start&equals;"1101" data-end&equals;"1467">A DDoS &lpar;Distributed Denial of Service&rpar; attack overwhelms a server or network with excessive traffic&comma; preventing it from functioning properly&period; These attacks can effectively knock services offline by exhausting their capacity to respond&period; Over the years&comma; major platforms like Spotify&comma; GitHub&comma; and Microsoft’s Outlook and OneDrive have all fallen victim to such attacks&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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