On Saturday 16 March 2024 at 15:36 UTC, a carpet-bombing UDP flood targeted a gaming community customer in Western Europe. The attack peaked at 279.3 Gbps and lasted 46 minutes. Traffic originated from 1497 autonomous systems in 16 countries, predominantly a rented booter service.
| Vector | carpet-bombing UDP flood |
| Peak | 279.3 Gbps |
| Duration | 46 min |
| Time to mitigation | 0.548 s |
| Attack traffic reaching origin | 0.054% |
| Legitimate traffic challenged | 0.47% |
Timeline
The attack was preceded by no stated motive. Edge packet filters identified the flood by source port and payload signature and dropped it at line rate across 35 points of presence.
What the customer saw
No customer-visible impact. The on-call engineer was notified and acknowledged the incident from the dashboard.
Recommendations
- Review allow-listed partner ranges quarterly.
- Add a dedicated rate limit for the targeted route.
- Enable authenticated origin pulls.