Microsoft says Azure was hit with a massive DDoS attack launched from over 500,000 IP addresses

• Microsoft mitigated a record 15.72 Tbps DDoS attack from Aisuru botnet
• Aisuru, a Mirai-class IoT botnet, controls 300,000+ compromised devices
• Microsoft warns DDoS attacks will grow as IoT and internet speeds scale

Microsoft has said it successfully mitigated, “the largest DDoS attack ever observed in the cloud” after cybercriminals running the Aisuru botnet targeted a single endpoint, located in Australia.

The attack was a sight to behold: more than 500,000 source IPs, across various regions, descended upon the endpoint, delivering a multi-vector Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack measuring 15.72 Tbps and nearly 3.64 billion packets per second (pps).