DDoS attack trends for 2021 Q1
April 19, 2021
Today, along with this deep-dive analysis blog, we’re excited to announce the new Radar DDoS Report page, our first fully automated data notebook built on top of Jupyter, Clickhouse, and Workers....
2020 U.S. Election: Cybersecurity Analysis
February 09, 2021
As we protect many entities in the election space, we have the ability to identify, learn and analyze attack trends targeted at these sites that provide authoritative election information....
Network-layer DDoS attack trends for Q4 2020
January 22, 2021
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. ...
Cloudflare Radar's 2020 Year In Review
January 12, 2021
Today we are launching a dedicated Year In Review page with interactive maps and charts where you can explore what changed on the Internet in 2020. Year In Review is part of Cloudflare Radar. ...
Trend data on the SolarWinds Orion compromise
December 16, 2020
Analyzing SUNBURST malware activity seen on Cloudflare’s public DNS resolver....
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Bot Attack trends for Jan-Jul 2020
Automated traffic makes up almost 40% of total Internet traffic. Let’s take a look at how bots behaved over 2020 so far....
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August 05, 2020
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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May 15, 2020
Network-Layer DDoS Attack Trends for Q1 2020
In Q1 2020, traffic levels have increased by over 50% in many countries, but have DDoS attacks increased as well?...
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May 01, 2020
When people pause the Internet goes quiet
As human behaviour has changed in response to the pandemic, it's left a mark on the charts that network operators look at day in, day out to ensure that their networks are running correctly....
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April 30, 2020
DDoS attacks have evolved, and so should your DDoS protection
Building a modern DDoS solution that is truly effective in thwarting ever-evolving DDoS attacks, to protect all of our customers has been a core tenet for us - enabling us to be an industry leader....
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April 23, 2020
Internet performance during the COVID-19 emergency
The Internet has shown that it was built for this: designed to handle huge changes in traffic, outages, and a changing mix of use. As we are well into April I thought it was time for an update....
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April 11, 2020
Remote work, regional lockdowns and migration of Internet usage
As a large portion of Internet access shifted from office-focused areas, like city centers and business parks, towards more residential areas like suburbs and outlying towns, we wanted to find out just precisely how broad this geographical traffic migration was. ...
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April 10, 2020
Rolling With The Punches: Shifting Attack Tactics & Dropping Packets Faster & Cheaper At The Edge
Over the past 6 months, volumetric DDoS attacks decreased by 82%. However volumetric attacks are not gone yet, still peaking as high as 418 Gbps. In this post, we cover the changing attack landscape and how Cloudflare adapts and evolves to keep the internet safe....
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The Internet Mince Pie Data Base: 2018 Edition
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