On Monday 23 March 2026 at 19:00 UTC, a carpet-bombing UDP flood targeted a developer platform customer in Latin America. The attack peaked at 210.5 Gbps and lasted 97 minutes. Traffic originated from 1836 autonomous systems in 102 countries, predominantly residential proxy networks.
| Vector | carpet-bombing UDP flood |
| Peak | 210.5 Gbps |
| Duration | 97 min |
| Time to mitigation | 0.049 s |
| Attack traffic reaching origin | 0.073% |
| Legitimate traffic challenged | 0.24% |
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 25 points of presence.
What the customer saw
The customer’s status page stayed green throughout; they learned about the attack from our notification.
Recommendations
- Review allow-listed partner ranges quarterly.
- Add a dedicated rate limit for the targeted route.
- Enable log streaming to your SIEM for faster correlation.
This matches what we see in iGaming around big matches.
Thanks — sharing this with our on-call team.
Nice to read a vendor blog that admits what went wrong.
Great to hear, thanks for sharing your experience.
Our auditors asked for exactly this kind of incident evidence under DORA.
Thanks — sharing this with our on-call team.
Machine-readable ranges are at /ips.json and via the API.