Many websites and social media sites are down for thousands of users, including Facebook and X, as well as music streaming app Spotify.
Cybersecurity expert Hekuran Doli, in a Facebook post, reacted to the situation, writing that it is still unknown why it fell from the Cloudflare system.
"The largest DDoS attack ever. Yesterday we witnessed the largest DDoS attack ever recorded, 3.64 billion packets per second and 15.72 terabits per second. This attack hit Azure's infrastructure and came from a Mirai (Asiru)-class "botnet". Then today, Cloudflare went down (we still don't know the details), taking a large part of the global internet with it.
"We've been told all along that Generative AI will radically change the attack landscape, not only creating new attack vectors, but also dramatically increasing their scale and sophistication. We're entering an era of hyper-automated warfare. The question is no longer just 'are we safe?' It's: Can human defenses ever keep up with the pace of AI attacks?" he wrote.
Otherwise, foreign media have reported that this concerns some of the platforms that have their servers hosted on Cloudflare.
Cloudflare offers tools that protect websites from cyberattacks and allow sites to load content faster.
As further noted, thousands of problems with Cloudflare have been reported so far, according to outage tracker Downdetector.
Cloudflare says on its status page that engineers are investigating the issue "which potentially impacts multiple customers."
As it was further stated, "further details will be provided as more information becomes available." /Telegraph/
