Hackers unleashed a DDoS attack peaking above 2Tbps on a betting firm last quarter. It lasted over 40 minutes. Eleven spikes hammered the target, four topping 1Tbps each. No such assault exceeded 1Tbps in early 2025. Now they do, routinely. TechRadar Pro detailed this in coverage of Qrator Labs’ Q1 2026 report, which tracks the surge. The botnet behind such power? It ballooned from 1.33 million infected devices to 13.5 million in one year. That’s tenfold growth, faster than forecasts predicted. Devices span the US, Brazil, India. The UK just cracked the top five sources. Qrator Labs’ data shows malicious bot requests hitting 2.5 billion blocked per month on average. One e-commerce site endured over 178 million blocked requests across two weeks—the longest ‘bad bot’ barrage in the period. Qrator Labs Q1 2026 Report lays out these numbers starkly. Multi-vector assaults complicate matters further. Their share climbed from 8% to 10.7% of incidents.…