DDoS threat report for 2023 Q1
April 11, 2023 1:00 PM
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...
Cloudflare’s view of the Virgin Media outage in the UK
April 04, 2023 6:57 PM
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...
Analyze any URL safely using the Cloudflare Radar URL Scanner
March 15, 2023 1:00 PM
Try our URL Scanner. Cloudflare Radar’s newest free tool for an under-the-hood look at any webpage...
The state of application security in 2023
March 14, 2023 1:00 PM
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....
One year of war in Ukraine: Internet trends, attacks, and resilience
February 23, 2023 3:58 PM
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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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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November 25, 2022 6:32 PM
An early look at Thanksgiving 2022 Internet trends
Yesterday, November 24, 2022, was Thanksgiving Day in the US. Last year, we saw how the US paused shopping (and browsing) for Thanksgiving. So, how was it this year?...
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November 23, 2022 4:00 PM
How we detect route leaks and our new Cloudflare Radar route leak service
In this blog post, we will introduce our new system designed to detect route leaks and its integration on Cloudflare Radar and its public API....
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November 17, 2022 2:00 PM
How we built it: the technology behind Cloudflare Radar 2.0
Radar 2.0 was launched last month during Cloudflare's Birthday Week as a complete product revamp. This blog explains how we built it technically. Hopefully, it will inspire other developers to build complex web apps using Cloudflare products....
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November 11, 2022 6:14 PM
2022 US midterm elections attack analysis
For Athenian Project and Cloudflare for Campaigns participant websites, overall traffic volume ramped as Election Day approached...
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November 03, 2022 7:42 PM
How the Brazilian Presidential elections affected Internet traffic
What happens to the Internet traffic of a country when an important election happens. In Brazil, the first round of the Presidential elections brought a 10% decrease in Internet traffic, but the runoff on Sunday had a bigger: 21% drop...
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October 18, 2022 5:36 PM
Internet disruptions overview for Q3 2022
In this post, we review selected Internet disruptions observed by Cloudflare during the second 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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October 12, 2022 1:00 PM
Cloudflare DDoS threat report 2022 Q3
In Q3, DDoS attacks increased by 111% YoY, Cloudflare auto-mitigated a 2.5 Tbps attack targeting a Minecraft server as multi-terabit scale DDoS attacks become increasingly frequent. Read more in our 2022 Q3 DDoS Report...
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September 30, 2022 1:00 PM
Goodbye, Alexa. Hello, Cloudflare Radar Domain Rankings
Today, we are launching a new dataset called Radar Rankings, where we identify the top most popular domains that reflect how people use the Internet globally and per country....
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September 30, 2022 1:00 PM
The status page the Internet needs: Cloudflare Radar Outage Center
The new Cloudflare Radar Outage Center (CROC), launched as part of Radar 2.0, is intended to be an archive of information about Internet outages observed by Cloudflare...
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