On Friday 14 August 2026 at 23:52 UTC, a carpet-bombing UDP flood targeted a ticketing customer in Southeast Asia. The attack peaked at 373.7 Gbps and lasted 132 minutes. Traffic originated from 173 autonomous systems in 60 countries, predominantly compromised cloud VMs.
| Vector | carpet-bombing UDP flood |
| Peak | 373.7 Gbps |
| Duration | 132 min |
| Time to mitigation | 0.233 s |
| Attack traffic reaching origin | 0.064% |
| Legitimate traffic challenged | 0.22% |
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 40 points of presence.
What the customer saw
Checkout conversion was unchanged compared with the same hour of the previous week.
Recommendations
- Enable authenticated origin pulls.
- Add a dedicated rate limit for the targeted route.
- Review allow-listed partner ranges quarterly.