DDoS Attack Trends for Q4 2021
January 10, 2022 1:58PM
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...
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A Brief History of the Meris Botnet
November 09, 2021 12:59PM
DDoS
Attacks
Trends
Cloudflare Radar
Ransom DDoS
Over the past months, we’ve been tracking and analyzing the activity of the Meris botnet....
DDoS Attack Trends for Q3 2021
November 04, 2021 12:58PM
DDoS
Attacks
Cloudflare Radar
Ransom DDoS
RDDoS
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....
Anatomy of a Targeted Ransomware Attack
March 23, 2021 1:00PM
DDoS
Ransom Attack
Attacks
Ransom DDoS
RDDoS
Imagine your most critical systems suddenly stop operating. And then someone demands a ransom to get your systems working again. Or someone launches a DDoS against you and demands a ransom to make it stop. That’s the world of ransomware and ransom DDoS....
Network-layer DDoS attack trends for Q4 2020
January 22, 2021 12:00PM
DDoS
Trends
Ransom Attack
RDDoS
Fancy Bear
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....
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....