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October 23, 2024 1:05 PM
4.2 Tbps of bad packets and a whole lot more: Cloudflare's Q3 DDoS report
The number of DDoS attacks spiked in the third quarter of 2024. Cloudflare mitigated nearly 6 million DDoS attacks, representing a 49% increase QoQ and 55% increase YoY....
October 01, 2024 12:32 AM
Impact of Verizon’s September 30 outage on Internet traffic
On Monday, September 30, customers on Verizon’s mobile network in multiple cities across the United States reported experiencing a loss of connectivity. HTTP request traffic data from Verizon’s mobile ASN (AS6167) showed nominal declines across impacted cities.
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September 27, 2024 1:00 PM
Network trends and natural language: Cloudflare Radar’s new Data Explorer & AI Assistant
The Cloudflare Radar Data Explorer provides a simple Web-based interface to build more complex API queries, including comparisons and filters, and visualize the results. The accompanying AI Assistant translates a user’s natural language statements or questions into the appropriat...
September 23, 2024 1:00 PM
Network performance update: Birthday Week 2024
Since June 2021, we’ve been measuring and ranking our network performance against the top global networks in the world. We use this data to improve our performance, and to share the results of those initiatives.
In this post, we’re going to share with you how network performanc...
September 11, 2024 4:00 PM
How the Harris-Trump US presidential debate influenced Internet traffic
See how the first 2024 US presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump influenced Internet traffic patterns compared to the Biden-Trump debate. We also review email trends and observed attack activity....
September 05, 2024 7:00 AM
A global assessment of third-party connection tampering
Cloudflare brings visibility to the practice of connection tampering as observed from our global network....
September 05, 2024 7:00 AM
Bringing insights into TCP resets and timeouts to Cloudflare Radar
New TCP resets and timeouts dataset on Cloudflare Radar surfaces connection tampering, scanning, DoS attacks, and more....
August 23, 2024 2:52 PM
Exploring Internet and security trends during the 2024 U.S. Democratic National Convention
This analysis highlights the 2024 Democratic National Convention’s impact on Internet traffic and security, with spikes in interest for sites related to Kamala Harris and the Democrats, as well as news sites, plus pre-convention attacks on political organizations....
August 14, 2024 1:00 PM
Paris 2024 Olympics recap: Internet trends, cyber threats, and popular moments
As the Paris 2024 Olympics ended, our analysis shows the event’s impact on the Internet in France and other countries at different moments, its effect on specific web properties, and a spike in cyber threats and emails related to Simone Biles and others....
August 13, 2024 2:00 PM
Introducing HTTP request traffic insights on Cloudflare Radar
The traffic graphs on Cloudflare Radar have been enhanced to include HTTP request traffic. This new metric complements the existing bytes-based “HTTP traffic” view, and the new graphs can be found on Radar’s Overview and Traffic pages....
August 01, 2024 3:21 PM
A recent spate of Internet disruptions
Cloudflare Radar is constantly monitoring the Internet for widespread disruptions. Here we examine several recent noteworthy disruptions detected in the first month of Q3, including traffic anomalies observed in Bangladesh, Syria, Pakistan, and Venezuela....
July 30, 2024 8:46 PM
How the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics has impacted Internet traffic
This blog post explores the impact of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics on Internet traffic in France and beyond, concentrating on web activity during the opening ceremony and the initial days of competition. Let the games continue....
July 22, 2024 2:41 PM
Countdown to Paris 2024 Olympics: France leads in web interest
As the Paris 2024 Olympics approach, our analysis reveals France, the host nation, leads in DNS traffic to official Olympic sites, followed by the UK, the US, and Australia...
July 19, 2024 3:07 PM
Exploring Internet traffic during the 2024 U.S. Republican National Convention
This week, the Republican National Convention was hosted in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from July 15 to 18, 2024. We examined traffic shifts and cyberattacks since June 2024 to see how these events have impacted the Internet...
July 16, 2024 1:00 PM
Q2 2024 Internet disruption summary
Government directed shutdowns and cable cuts were both significant sources of Internet outages in Q2 2024. This post explores these disruptions, as well as others caused by power outages, maintenance, technical problems, military action, and unknown causes...