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March 02, 2021 5:41PM

Cloudflare recognized as a 'Leader' in The Forrester Wave for DDoS Mitigation Solutions

Cloudflare is named a ‘Leader’ in Forrester Wave™ for DDoS Mitigation Solutions, Q1 2021...

February 26, 2021 11:00PM

Flow-based monitoring for Magic Transit

Product News Magic Transit Security DDoS Attacks

Today, we’re announcing new functionality to improve the experience for on demand Magic Transit customers: flow-based monitoring. Flow-based monitoring allows us to detect and notify customers when they’re under attack so they can activate Magic Transit for protection....

Annika Garbers

January 22, 2021 12:00PM

Network-layer DDoS attack trends for Q4 2020

DDoS Trends Ransom Attack RDDoS Fancy Bear Lazarus group Cozy Bear DDoS Reports

DDoS attack trends in the final quarter of 2020 defied norms in many ways. For the first time in 2020, Cloudflare observed an increase in the number of large DDoS attacks. Specifically, the number of attacks over 500Mbps and 50K pps saw a massive uptick....

January 14, 2021 5:00PM

Holistic web protection: industry recognition for a prolific 2020

Bot Management Speed & Reliability Security WAF DDoS Firewall

Today we’re excited to announce that Frost & Sullivan has named Cloudflare the Innovation Leader in their Frost Radar™: Global Holistic Web Protection Market Report....

Patrick R. Donahue

January 07, 2021 4:19PM

Ransom DDoS attacks target a Fortune Global 500 company

DDoS Ransom Attack Fancy Bear Magic Transit Lazarus group Cozy Bear

In late 2020, a major Fortune Global 500 company was targeted by a Ransom DDoS (RDDoS) attack by a group claiming to be the Lazarus Group. Cloudflare quickly onboarded them to the Magic Transit service and protected them against the lingering threat....

Omer Yoachimik

December 22, 2020 12:00PM

Beat - An Acoustics Inspired DDoS Attack

On the week of Black Friday, Cloudflare automatically detected and mitigated “Beat” - an acoustics inspired DDoS attacks that targeted a Magic Transit customer....

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Omer Yoachimik

DDoS , Magic Transit , Attacks , Security

November 18, 2020 12:00PM

Network-layer DDoS attack trends for Q3 2020

In Q3 ‘20, Cloudflare observed a surge in DDoS attacks, with double the number of DDoS attacks and more attack vectors deployed than ever — with a notable surge in protocol-specific DDoS attacks such as mDNS, Memcached, and Jenkins amplification floods....

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Vivek Ganti
, Omer Yoachimik

DDoS , Trends , RDDoS , Ransom Attack , Fancy Bear

November 07, 2020 12:00PM

Announcing Spectrum DDoS Analytics and DDoS Insights & Trends

We’re excited to announce the expansion of the Network Analytics dashboard to Spectrum customers on the Enterprise plan. Additionally, this announcement introduces two major dashboard improvements for easier reporting and investigation....

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Selina Cho

DDoS , Network Analytics , Internship Experience , Spectrum

October 22, 2020 2:14PM

A Virtual Product Management Internship Experience

In July 2020, I joined Cloudflare as a Product Management Intern on the DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) team to enhance the benefits that Network Analytics brings to our customers. This is my experience....

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Selina Cho

DDoS , Network Analytics , Internship Experience , COVID-19 , Life @ Cloudflare

October 05, 2020 12:00PM

Know When You’ve Been DDoS’d

Today we’re announcing the availability of DDoS attack alerts. The alerts are available for free for all Cloudflare’s customers on paid plans. Learn how to create an alert....

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Omer Yoachimik

DDoS , Product News , PagerDuty , Attacks

September 16, 2020 12:00PM

Moobot vs. Gatebot: Cloudflare Automatically Blocks Botnet DDoS Attack Topping At 654 Gbps

On July 3, Cloudflare’s global DDoS protection system, Gatebot, automatically detected and mitigated a UDP-based DDoS attack that peaked at 654 Gbps. The attack was part of a ten-day multi-vector DDoS campaign targeting a Magic Transit customer and was mitigated without any human intervention....

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Omer Yoachimik

DDoS , Mirai , Moobot , Gatebot , Magic Transit

August 05, 2020 2:00PM

Network-layer DDoS attack trends for Q2 2020

This quarter, we saw an increasing number of large scale attacks; both in terms of packet rate and bit rate. In fact, 88% of all DDoS attacks in 2020 that peaked above 100 Gbps were launched after shelter-in-place went into effect in March....

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Vivek Ganti
, Omer Yoachimik

DDoS , Trends , COVID-19 , Security , Security Spotlight

July 14, 2020 12:00PM

flowtrackd: DDoS Protection with Unidirectional TCP Flow Tracking

flowtrackd is a software-defined DDoS protection system that significantly improves our ability to automatically detect and mitigate even the most complex TCP-based DDoS attacks. If you are a Magic Transit customer, this feature will be enabled by default at no additional cost on July 29, 2020....

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Omer Yoachimik

DDoS , Security , TCP , Magic Transit , Gatebot

July 09, 2020 12:00PM

Mitigating a 754 Million PPS DDoS Attack Automatically

On June 20, Cloudflare automatically mitigated a highly volumetric DDoS attack that peaked above 754 million packets per second. The attack was part of an organized four day campaign starting on June 18 and ending on June 21....

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Omer Yoachimik

DDoS , Security , Gatebot , Attacks , SYN