Measuring the Internet's pulse: trending domains now on Cloudflare Radar
July 24, 2023 1:00 PM
Today, we are improving our Domain Rankings page and adding Trending Domains lists...
DDoS threat report for 2023 Q2
July 18, 2023 1:00 PM
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%....
Introducing the Cloudflare Radar Internet Quality Page
June 23, 2023 1:00 PM
The new Internet Quality page on Cloudflare Radar provides both country and network (autonomous system) level insight into Internet connection performance (bandwidth) and quality (latency, jitter) over time based on benchmark test data as well as speed.cloudflare.com test results...
Exam-related Internet shutdowns in Iraq and Algeria put connectivity to the test
June 13, 2023 1:18 PM
During the first two weeks of June 2023, we’ve seen Iraq implementing a series of multi-hour shutdowns that will reportedly occur through mid-July, as well as Algeria taking similar actions to prevent cheating on baccalaureate exams...
Cloudflare’s view of Internet disruptions in Pakistan
May 12, 2023 7:00 PM
Following the arrest of ex-PM Imran Khan, violent protests led the Pakistani government to order the shutdown of mobile Internet services and blocking of social media platforms. We examine the impact of these shutdowns on Internet traffic in Pakistan and traffic to Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver....
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Effects of the conflict in Sudan on Internet patterns
On Saturday, April 15, 2023, an armed conflict between rival factions of the military government of Sudan began. Cloudflare observed a disruption in Internet traffic on that Saturday, starting at 08:00 UTC, which deepened on Sunday...
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April 19, 2023 2:57 PM
How Easter, Passover and Ramadan show up in Internet trends
How Easter (including Orthodox Easter), Passover & Ramadan affected 2023 Internet traffic...
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April 12, 2023 1:00 PM
Internet disruptions overview for Q1 2023
In this post, we review selected Internet disruptions observed by Cloudflare during the first quarter of 2023, supported by traffic graphs from Cloudflare Radar and other internal Cloudflare tools, and grouped by associated cause or common geography...
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April 11, 2023 1:00 PM
DDoS threat report for 2023 Q1
Threat actors kicked off 2023 with a bang. The start of the year was characterized by a series of hacktivist campaigns against Western targets, and record-breaking hyper volumetric attacks...
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April 04, 2023 6:57 PM
Cloudflare’s view of the Virgin Media outage in the UK
UK ISP Virgin Media (AS5089) experienced several outages on April 4, 2023. We examine the impact to Internet traffic, availability of Virgin Media web properties, and how BGP activity may provide insights into the underlying cause...
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March 15, 2023 1:00 PM
Analyze any URL safely using the Cloudflare Radar URL Scanner
Try our URL Scanner. Cloudflare Radar’s newest free tool for an under-the-hood look at any webpage...
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March 14, 2023 1:00 PM
The state of application security in 2023
One year ago we published our first Application Security Report. For Security Week 2023, we are providing updated insights and trends around mitigated traffic, bot and API traffic, and account takeover attacks....
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February 23, 2023 3:58 PM
One year of war in Ukraine: Internet trends, attacks, and resilience
This blog post reports on Internet insights during an historical war in Europe that has been seen and shared online, and discusses how Ukraine's Internet remained resilient in spite of dozens of disruptions in three different stages of the conflict....
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February 13, 2023 10:23 PM
A look at Internet traffic trends during Super Bowl LVII
We look at who the biggest winners were among Super Bowl advertisers, and examine traffic trends for food delivery services, social media, and sports and betting sites. We also review city and state-level traffic trends, as well as related email threat volume in the weeks ahead o...
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January 20, 2023 2:00 PM
Internet disruptions overview for Q4 2022
In this post, we review selected Internet disruptions observed by Cloudflare during the fourth quarter of 2022, supported by traffic graphs from Cloudflare Radar and other internal Cloudflare tools, and grouped by associated cause or common geography....
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January 10, 2023 1:00 PM
Cloudflare DDoS threat report for 2022 Q4
In Q4, Cloudflare mitigated millions of DDoS attacks. Attack durations increase, volumetric attacks surged, and ransom DDoS attacks persist. Travel & events industries were hit hardest and over 90% of traffic to Chinese Internet properties were L3/4 DDoS attacks. Read more on our...
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December 22, 2022 2:00 PM
Cloudflare Radar 2022 Year in Review
We’re excited to present the Cloudflare Radar 2022 Year In Review, featuring interactive charts, graphs, and maps you can use to explore what changed on the Internet throughout this past year...
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December 16, 2022 2:00 PM
Helping build a safer Internet by measuring BGP RPKI Route Origin Validation
Is BGP safe yet? If the question needs asking, then it isn't. But how far the Internet is from this goal is what we set out to answer....
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December 15, 2022 2:02 PM
Partnering with civil society to track Internet shutdowns with Radar Alerts and API
Learn more on how Cloudflare works with civil society organizations to provide tools to track Internet shutdowns using Radar Alerts and API....
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