The "largest ever" DDOS attack was reportedly the "carpet bombing" of a Minecraft server weathering 3.15 billion packets per second from Russia and 17 other countries

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This puts this packet rate attack as the largest ever reported to the public."

This attack evidently came in two stages.

In all, 42,209 sources were found to be “participating in the packet rate campaign.”

“In this case, Russia, Vietnam, and Korea comprise 42.8% of the total volume.

Traffic from these sources was predominantly scrubbed in Frankfurt and Singapore.”