Cloudflare mitigates a record of 26M request per second DDoS attack

i do this too, Why ? 1. Developing myself to keep the backend server alive. 2. To determine who has what power in the groups I am in. 3. How exactly does cloudflare behave in the face of this power, to analyze its technical infrastructure. If you are in the IT industry and e-commerce business, the technical software infrastructure of your website should always be ready for this, if you want to live on the Internet.

I'd be surprised if all 5,000+ devices were shutdown. Maybe if there were 5 devices...

Most of these attacks are reflection attacks, meaning they are just exploring normal protocol behaviors. Meaning these machines, are not necessarily infected but are just innocent participants in the attack.

For example somebody has a Memcached instance running on a public machine and does not realize they have UDP ports on 11211.

"Memcrashed - Major amplification attacks from UDP port 11211": https://blog.cloudflare.com/memcrashed-major-amplification-a...

Incompetent participants, but non notwithstanding still innocent.