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Cloudflare has claimed it recently blocked the largest Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack ever recorded.
The systems worked as intended.
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Mirai is one of the most infamous botnets out there.
Its source code leaked in 2017, after which different threat actors started building their own variants.
Today, Mirai and its variants often make headlines, targeting different organizations with large-scale DDoS attacks.
Just this week, security researchers observed two variants, gayfemboy, and Murdoc Botnet.
