Internet outage in Yemen amid airstrikes
January 21, 2022
The early hours of Friday, January 21, 2022, started in Yemen with a country-wide Internet outage...
Tonga’s likely lengthy Internet outage
January 19, 2022
The latest Internet outage, in the South Pacific country of Tonga (with 169 islands), is still ongoing. It started with the large eruption of Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai, an uninhabited volcanic island of the Tongan archipelago on Friday, January 14, 2022...
DDoS Attack Trends for Q4 2021
January 10, 2022
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...
Internet shut down in Kazakhstan amid unrest
January 05, 2022
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...
How The Gambia lost access to the Internet for more than 8 hours
January 05, 2022
On the morning of January 4, 2022, citizens of The Gambia woke up to a country-wide Internet outage...
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December 20, 2021
In 2021, the Internet went for TikTok, space and beyond
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November 30, 2021
Thanksgiving’s biggest online shopping day was Cyber Monday, but other days were close behind
November comes, the temperatures start to get colder for most of the planet's population (87% live in the Northern Hemisphere) and many are also starting to prepare for the festive season. ...
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November 29, 2021
Attack Maps now available on Radar
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....
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November 26, 2021
How the US paused shopping (and browsing) for Thanksgiving
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....
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November 26, 2021
Heard in the halls of Web Summit 2021
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). ...
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November 22, 2021
Burkina Faso Internet shutdown
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...
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November 22, 2021
Sudan was cut off from the Internet for 25 days
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. ...
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November 09, 2021
A Brief History of the Meris Botnet
Over the past months, we’ve been tracking and analyzing the activity of the Meris botnet....
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November 05, 2021
When students go back to school mobile usage goes down
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....
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November 04, 2021
DDoS Attack Trends for Q3 2021
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....
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November 01, 2021
Sudan: seven days without Internet access (and counting)
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...
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October 25, 2021
Sudan woke up without Internet
Today, October 25, following political turmoil, Sudan woke up without Internet access....
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October 09, 2021
Where is mobile traffic the most and least popular?
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...
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September 30, 2021
Increased interest in Spanish media after the La Palma volcanic eruption
Cloudflare Radar shows how Spanish media outlets had an increase in Internet traffic after the volcano eruption on the island of La Palma. ...
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