A hacker pulled off a record 11.5Tbps DDoS attack, up 60% from the previous peak. On Monday, internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare reported the record-shattering distributed denial of service attack, which appears to have occurred sometime last month. The attack lasted only 35 seconds, but reached a peak of 11.5Tbps while pushing 5.1 billion packets per second, hammering both network bandwidth and packet-processing capacity. Details are thin, including who the attack targeted. But a DDoS is often designed to overwhelm an internet service, such as a website or mobile app, with the goal of taking it offline. Although Cloudflare autonomously blocked the attack, the incident shows that someone is finding a way to drastically increase the power of a DDoS. The previous record-holder for a DDoS attack was a 7.3Tbps assault that Cloudflare detected and blocked in May. Cloudfare says the hacker generated the DDoS by exploiting User Datagram Protocol (UDP) packets, which are used f...