On Monday 9 February 2026 at 16:57 UTC, a UDP reflection (NTP) targeted a fashion retail customer in Latin America. The attack peaked at 278.6 Gbps and lasted 134 minutes. Traffic originated from 984 autonomous systems in 84 countries, predominantly a Mirai-derived IoT botnet.
| Vector | UDP reflection (NTP) |
| Peak | 278.6 Gbps |
| Duration | 134 min |
| Time to mitigation | 0.706 s |
| Attack traffic reaching origin | 0.025% |
| Legitimate traffic challenged | 0.80% |
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 16 points of presence.
What the customer saw
The customer’s status page stayed green throughout; they learned about the attack from our notification.
Recommendations
- Enable authenticated origin pulls.
- Lower challenge thresholds on authentication endpoints during high-risk events.
- Keep origin IPs out of public DNS history.