Since 2025, global DDoS attack bandwidth peaks have continuously broken historical records, soaring from 3.12 Tbps at the beginning of the year to a staggering 11.5 Tbps recently. A botnet called AISURU has been observed operating behind numerous high-impact or record-breaking attacks. The AISURU botnet was first disclosed by XLab in August 2024 and was involved in DDoS attacks targeting the distribution platform of "Black Myth: Wukong." Since March of this year, XLab's large-scale threat monitoring platform has continuously captured new samples of this botnet. Multiple sources indicate that the group behind it allegedly compromised a router firmware upgrade server in April and expanded the botnet by distributing malicious scripts. The current number of nodes is reportedly 300,000. (by celestre)