January 10, 2022 1:58 PM
In Q4, we observed a 95% increase in L3/4 DDoS attacks and record-breaking levels of Ransom DDoS attacks. The Manufacturing industry was the most targeted alongside a 5,800% increase in SNMP-based DDoS attacks and massive campaigns against VoIP providers around the world...
January 05, 2022 6:04 PM
In Kazakhstan, the year had barely got going when yesterday disruptions of Internet access ended up in a nationwide Internet shutdown from today, January 5, 2022...
January 05, 2022 4:14 PM
On the morning of January 4, 2022, citizens of The Gambia woke up to a country-wide Internet outage...
December 23, 2021 3:51 PM
In 2021, we continued to live with the effects of the COVID pandemic and Internet traffic was also impacted (differently than in 2020) from it....
December 20, 2021 3:09 PM
Join us in our Year in Review 2021 focused on the most popular domains-websites...
November 29, 2021 6:30 PM
We love line and bar graphs, but some data is best represented with different visualizations. We’re introducing world maps and sankey visualizations as part of Radar Maps, which are being used today to show you the top layer 7 attacks in real time....
November 26, 2021 3:51 PM
Throughout the pandemic we saw different trends caused by people being more at home than usual, but Internet patterns also change at specific times of the year (like when students go back to school or when it’s colder outside) or on some holidays like Thanksgiving....
November 26, 2021 1:59 PM
Global in-person events are back. We present a few ideas from Web Summit 2021 about the future and where the Internet is going. Check the interviews we’ve done at the event (from the lack of Internet access to Web3). ...
November 22, 2021 4:11 PM
People living in Burkina Faso are facing an Internet shutdown. Cloudflare Radar shows that after 22:00 UTC (the same local time) Internet traffic went down significantly, something that has happened in the context of social tensions in the country that started on November 14, 202...
November 22, 2021 2:44 PM
The Internet started to come back to Sudan (with limitations) this past Thursday, November 18. This happens after 25 days (three weeks and four days) of an almost complete shutdown that affected the whole country. ...
November 09, 2021 12:59 PM
Over the past months, we’ve been tracking and analyzing the activity of the Meris botnet....
November 05, 2021 1:01 PM
September is the “get back to school” month for many. Looking at our data there’s a global trend: mobile traffic lost importance (compared with desktop traffic) in September 2021 compared to August....
November 04, 2021 12:58 PM
In Q3, 2021 we saw and mitigated record-setting HTTP DDoS attacks, terabit-strong network layer attacks, one of the largest botnets ever deployed (Meris), and more recently, ransom attacks on Voice-over-IP (VoIP) service providers....
November 01, 2021 10:41 AM
It's not every day that there is no Internet access in an entire country. In the case of Sudan, it has been five days without Internet after political turmoil that started last Monday, October 25, 2021...
October 25, 2021 7:00 PM
Today, October 25, following political turmoil, Sudan woke up without Internet access....
October 09, 2021 12:58 PM
We used Cloudflare Radar to find out those countries on the planet that have more (and less) mobile traffic on the Internet. Africa and the Middle East are the areas of the planet where mobile traffic dominates the Internet experience...
September 30, 2021 9:30 AM
Cloudflare Radar shows how Spanish media outlets had an increase in Internet traffic after the volcano eruption on the island of La Palma. ...
July 29, 2021 1:02 PM
Today, we are announcing Radar Alerts, a new program to help our civil society partners track and document Internet shutdowns and protect democratic elections around the world from cyberattacks....
July 20, 2021 2:07 PM
The DDoS attack trends observed over Cloudflare’s network in 2021 Q2 paint a picture that reflects the overall global cyber threat landscape. Here are some highlights of DDoS attack trends observed in 2021 Q2. ...
