US Tax Day 2022. How leaving it to the last day impacts tax sites
April 20, 2022 2:03 PM
How tax related websites were impacted by the Tax Day 2022 (the April 18 deadline to fill federal and state taxes)? With the highest growth in April...
DDoS Attack Trends for 2022 Q1
April 12, 2022 1:12 PM
Welcome to our first DDoS report of 2022, and the ninth in total so far. This report includes new data points and insights both in the application-layer and network-layer sections — as observed across the global Cloudflare network between January and March 2022...
The 2022 French Presidential election leaves its mark on the Internet
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Internet disruptions overview for Q1 2022
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In this post, we review selected Internet disruptions observed by Cloudflare during the first quarter of 2022, supported by traffic graphs from Cloudflare Radar and other internal Cloudflare tools, and grouped by associated cause...
How the Oscars impacted the Internet (at least in the US)
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How the Internet was impacted by the Oscars 2022 moments, including the Will Smith incident...
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February 22, 2022 1:04 PM
Internet is back in Tonga after 38 days of outage
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February 14, 2022 8:00 PM
Who won Super Bowl LVI? A look at Internet traffic during the big game
By now, everyone knows that the Los Angeles Rams won, but we also want to look at which Super Bowl advertisers were the biggest winners, and how traffic to food delivery services, social media and messaging apps, and sports and betting websites changed throughout the game...
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January 24, 2022 1:44 PM
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January 21, 2022 12:20 PM
Internet outage in Yemen amid airstrikes
The early hours of Friday, January 21, 2022, started in Yemen with a country-wide Internet outage...
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January 19, 2022 1:58 PM
Tonga’s likely lengthy Internet outage
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...
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DDoS Attack Trends for Q4 2021
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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January 05, 2022 6:04 PM
Internet shut down in Kazakhstan amid unrest
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January 05, 2022 4:14 PM
How The Gambia lost access to the Internet for more than 8 hours
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Cloudflare Radar's 2021 Year In Review
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In 2021, the Internet went for TikTok, space and beyond
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