Yikes!

https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/cloudflare-says-it-has-once-again-blocked-the-largest-ever-ddos-attack-in-history

Cloudflare has said it recently successfully stopped the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack ever recorded. The attack reached 22.2 terabits per second and 10.6 billion packets per second, setting a new world record.

When isn't there one going?

"Somehow"... seems to be caused by using centralized MitM Clownflare that supposedly protects against DDOS 🙄

Were they residential IP addresses? I had this a couple weeks back. But it wasn't just Brazil, constant hits from Argentina and few other countries. Tried different things but they were all unique residential addresses and hard to block, then set up challenge for the whole continent. Finally, it went down.

I mean, i don't use those other istances so maybe is just a coincidence.

that is ddos in a nutshell, but people are speculating the causes

What's Ralph Bakshi gotta do with it?

My money is on heavy scraping.

It seems that there has been a massive short lived ddos attack all over the web.

There have been several in the later years. Sone of them are linked to a botnet called AISURU that it's supposedly infected millions of devices worldwide.

Timing links most likely with an attempt at hybrid warfare against europe. My bet is israel or Russian linked due recent events.

No, that's what the common prejudices about the popular whipping boy of the moment says.