August 11, 2022 1:00 PM
In 2022, cybersecurity, more than ever, is a must-have for those who don’t want to take chances on getting caught in a cyberattack with difficult to deal with consequences. Here’s a reading list what you need to know about attacks that is also a guide on how to be protected...
July 11, 2022 12:57 PM
Location-Aware DDoS Protection is now available in beta for Cloudflare Enterprise customers that are subscribed to the Advanced DDoS service...
July 06, 2022 12:55 PM
Welcome to our 2022 Q2 DDoS report. This report includes insights and trends about the DDoS threat landscape — as observed across the global Cloudflare network...
June 14, 2022 12:56 PM
Last week, Cloudflare automatically detected and mitigated a 26 million request per second DDoS attack — the largest HTTPS DDoS attack on record...
April 27, 2022 2:02 PM
Earlier this month, Cloudflare’s systems automatically detected and mitigated a 15.3 million request-per-second (rps) DDoS attack — one of the largest HTTPS DDoS attacks on record...
March 08, 2022 3:22 PM
A zero-day vulnerability in the Mitel MiCollab business phone system has recently been discovered (CVE-2022-26143). This vulnerability, called TP240PhoneHome, which Cloudflare customers are already protected against, can be used to launch UDP amplification attacks...
January 10, 2022 1:58 PM
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...
November 29, 2021 6:30 PM
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....
November 13, 2021 2:33 PM
Earlier this week, Cloudflare automatically detected and mitigated a DDoS attack that peaked just below 2 Tbps — the largest we’ve seen to date....
November 09, 2021 12:59 PM
Over the past months, we’ve been tracking and analyzing the activity of the Meris botnet....
November 04, 2021 12:58 PM
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....
March 26, 2021 1:00 PM
The word “bots” on the Internet is a fairly loaded one. My earliest ‘bot’ experience was on IRC, where bots were quite helpful in making sure your favorite channel didn’t get taken over by malicious users and allowed for fun games of trivia....
March 23, 2021 1:00 PM
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....
February 26, 2021 11:00 PM
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....
December 22, 2020 12:00 PM
On the week of Black Friday, Cloudflare automatically detected and mitigated “Beat” - an acoustics inspired DDoS attacks that targeted a Magic Transit customer. ...
October 05, 2020 11:00 AM
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....
September 16, 2020 11:00 AM
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...
July 09, 2020 11:00 AM
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....
June 02, 2020 8:12 PM
As we’ve often seen in the past, real world protest and violence is usually accompanied by attacks on the Internet. This past week has been no exception. ...
