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October 25, 2023 1:05 PM
Q3 2023 Internet disruption summary
In this post, we review selected Internet disruptions observed by Cloudflare during the third quarter of 2023, supported by traffic graphs from Cloudflare Radar and other internal Cloudflare tools, and grouped by associated cause or common geography...
October 23, 2023 1:32 PM
Cyber attacks in the Israel-Hamas war
Since the October 7 Hamas attack, DDoS attackers have been targeting Israeli newspaper and media websites as well as software companies and financial institutions. ...
October 09, 2023 8:05 PM
Internet traffic patterns in Israel and Palestine following the October 2023 attacks
On Saturday, October 7, 2023, attacks from the Palestinian group Hamas launched from the Gaza Strip against the south of Israel started a new conflict in the region. Cloudflare's data shows that Internet traffic was impacted in different ways...
September 29, 2023 1:00 PM
Network performance update: Birthday Week 2023
In this post we are going to share the most recent updates since our last post in June, and tell you about our tools and processes that we use to monitor and improve our network performance...
September 26, 2023 1:00 PM
Traffic anomalies and notifications with Cloudflare Radar
Cloudflare Radar now displays country and ASN traffic anomalies in the Outage Center as they are detected, as well as publishing anomaly information via API. We are also launching Radar notifications, enabling users to subscribe to notifications about traffic anomalies...
September 26, 2023 1:00 PM
Gone offline: how Cloudflare Radar detects Internet outages
Cloudflare Radar will be publishing anomalous traffic events for countries and Autonomous Systems (ASes). These events are the same ones referenced above that have been triggering our internal workflow to validate and confirm disruptions...
September 22, 2023 1:00 PM
Typo traps: analyzing traffic to exmaple.com (or is it example.com?)
Cloudflare has owned exmaple.com for a few years now, but don’t confuse it with example.com! example.com is a reserved domain name set by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), under the direction of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)...
August 31, 2023 4:33 PM
Cloudflare Radar’s 2023 overview of new tools and insights
In this reading list, we want to highlight some of the new additions to Radar, as well as some of the Internet disruptions and trends we’ve observed and published posts about during this year...
August 21, 2023 2:15 PM
Application Security Report: Q2 2023
We are back with a quarterly update of our Application Security report. Read on to learn about new attack trends and insights visible from Cloudflare’s global network...
July 28, 2023 1:00 PM
Cloudflare Radar's new BGP origin hijack detection system
BGP origin hijacks allow attackers to intercept, monitor, redirect, or drop traffic destined for the victim's networks. We explain how Cloudflare built its BGP hijack detection system, from its design and implementation to its integration on Cloudflare Radar...
July 27, 2023 1:05 PM
Q2 2023 Internet disruption summary
In this post, we review selected Internet disruptions observed by Cloudflare during the second quarter of 2023, supported by traffic graphs from Cloudflare Radar and other internal Cloudflare tools, and grouped by associated cause or common geography...
July 27, 2023 1:00 PM
Routing information now on Cloudflare Radar
The Internet is a vast, sprawling collection of networks that connect to each other. The new Cloudflare Radar Routing page monitors routing changes and anomalies and presents statistics about how we see traffic getting routed on the Internet...
July 24, 2023 1:00 PM
Measuring the Internet's pulse: trending domains now on Cloudflare Radar
Today, we are improving our Domain Rankings page and adding Trending Domains lists...
July 18, 2023 1:00 PM
DDoS threat report for 2023 Q2
Q2 2023 saw an unprecedented escalation in DDoS attack sophistication. Pro-Russian hacktivists REvil, Killnet and Anonymous Sudan joined forces to attack Western sites. Mitel vulnerability exploits surged by a whopping 532%, and attacks on crypto rocketed up by 600%....