June 06, 2024 10:00 AM
In celebration of Project Galileo's 10th anniversary, we want to give you a snapshot of what organizations that work in the public interest experience on an everyday basis when it comes to keeping their websites online...
May 13, 2024 10:37 PM
On Sunday, May 12, issues with the EASSy and Seacom submarine cables again disrupted connectivity to East Africa, impacting a number of countries previously affected by a set of cable cuts that occurred nearly three months earlier...
April 29, 2024 1:00 PM
The first quarter of 2024 kicked off with quite a few Internet disruptions. Perhaps most interestingly, RPKI, DNS, and DNSSEC issues were among the technical problems that disrupted connectivity for subscribers across multiple network providers...
April 16, 2024 1:00 PM
2024 started with a bang. Cloudflare’s autonomous systems mitigated over 4.5 million DDoS attacks in the first quarter of the year — a 50% increase compared to the previous year. Read the full coverage...
April 14, 2024 9:23 PM
On April 13, 2024, Iran launched a retaliatory attack on Israel. We examined its potential impact on Internet traffic and attacks. While there were some shifts in traffic, we haven't observed any large-scale cyberattacks on Israeli domains protected by Cloudflare....
March 26, 2024 1:00 PM
In this 2023-early 2024 email analysis, we examine how certain generic Top-Level Domains (TLDs) are primarily used for spam and phishing, and their evolution over a year. There are many trends in email threats to examine...
March 14, 2024 6:03 PM
Internet connectivity in several African countries was disrupted on March 14, 2024, beginning at approximately 05:00 UTC. Based on published reports and social media posts from impacted network providers, the disruption is believed to be due to multiple undersea cable failures in...
March 08, 2024 2:00 PM
The new Email Security section on Cloudflare Radar provides insights into the latest trends around threats found in malicious email, sources of spam and malicious email, and the adoption of technologies designed to prevent abuse of email...
February 12, 2024 5:21 PM
Super Bowl LVIII was a close game, with the Chiefs winning in overtime. In this post, we explore how key moments during the game impacted Internet traffic, as well as looking at the traffic trends driven by advertisements that aired during the game...
January 22, 2024 2:00 PM
In this post, we review selected Internet disruptions observed by Cloudflare during the fourth quarter of 2023, supported by traffic graphs from Cloudflare Radar and other internal Cloudflare tools, and grouped by associated cause or common geography...
January 09, 2024 2:00 PM
Welcome to the sixteenth edition of Cloudflare’s DDoS Threat Report. This edition covers DDoS trends and key findings for the fourth and final quarter of the year 2023, complete with a review of major trends throughout the year...
December 14, 2023 3:05 PM
In the last decade, IPv6 adoption on the client side went from under 1% to somewhere in the high 30 to low 40 percent, depending on who’s reporting, but there’s also the other end of the equation: the server side...
December 12, 2023 2:00 PM
Building on similar reports we’ve done over the past two years, we have compiled a ranking of the top Internet properties of 2023...
December 12, 2023 1:00 PM
The 2023 Cloudflare Radar Year in Review is our fourth annual review of Internet trends and patterns observed throughout the year at both a global and country/region level......
November 28, 2023 10:08 PM
How significant are Cyber Week days on the Internet? Is it a global phenomenon? Does e-commerce interest peak on Black Friday or Cyber Monday, and are attacks increasing during this time? These questions are important to retailers and stakeholders around the world. ...
November 24, 2023 3:11 PM
Offline for turkey time: Which US states logged off on Thanksgiving Day? Is there a difference between coastal and central states? Do hackers take a Thanksgiving break? Are food delivery services gaining or losing traffic? We answer those questions and more...
October 26, 2023 1:00 PM
In the past quarter, DDoS attacks surged by 65%. Gaming and Gambling companies were the most attacked and Cloudflare mitigated thousands of hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks. The largest attacks we saw peaked at 201 million rps and 2.6 Tbps....
October 25, 2023 1:05 PM
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
Since the October 7 Hamas attack, DDoS attackers have been targeting Israeli newspaper and media websites as well as software companies and financial institutions. ...
