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June 21, 2024 1:00 PM
Exam-ining recent Internet shutdowns in Syria, Iraq, and Algeria
Similar to actions taken over the last several years, governments in Syria, Iraq, and Algeria have again disrupted Internet connectivity nationwide in an attempt to prevent cheating on exams. We investigate how these disruptions were implemented, and their impact...
June 10, 2024 3:27 PM
Exploring the 2024 EU Election: Internet traffic trends and cybersecurity insights
The 2024 EU Parliament election caused declines in Internet traffic during voting and spikes during results announcements, with persistent cyber threats targeting government sites...
June 07, 2024 8:40 PM
Internet insights on 2024 elections in the Netherlands, South Africa, Iceland, India, and Mexico
2024 brings a global increase in election activity. Here, we highlight traffic and cyberattack trends witnessed in countries like the Netherlands, South Africa, Iceland, India, and Mexico. Additionally, we provide an up-to-date 2024 Election Insights report on Cloudflare Radar...
June 06, 2024 7:23 PM
Dutch political websites hit by cyber attacks as EU voting starts
The 2024 European Parliament election began in the Netherlands on June 6. Cloudflare mitigated several multi-hour DDoS attacks on Dutch political websites on June 5 and 6...
June 06, 2024 10:00 AM
Protecting vulnerable communities for 10 years with Project Galileo
In celebration of Project Galileo's 10th anniversary, we want to give you a snapshot of what organizations that work in the public interest experience on an everyday basis when it comes to keeping their websites online...
May 13, 2024 10:37 PM
East African Internet connectivity again impacted by submarine cable cuts
On Sunday, May 12, issues with the EASSy and Seacom submarine cables again disrupted connectivity to East Africa, impacting a number of countries previously affected by a set of cable cuts that occurred nearly three months earlier...
April 29, 2024 1:00 PM
Q1 2024 Internet disruption summary
The first quarter of 2024 kicked off with quite a few Internet disruptions. Perhaps most interestingly, RPKI, DNS, and DNSSEC issues were among the technical problems that disrupted connectivity for subscribers across multiple network providers...
April 16, 2024 1:00 PM
DDoS threat report for 2024 Q1
2024 started with a bang. Cloudflare’s autonomous systems mitigated over 4.5 million DDoS attacks in the first quarter of the year — a 50% increase compared to the previous year.
Read the full coverage...
April 14, 2024 9:23 PM
An Internet traffic analysis during Iran's April 13, 2024, attack on Israel
On April 13, 2024, Iran launched a retaliatory attack on Israel. We examined its potential impact on Internet traffic and attacks. While there were some shifts in traffic, we haven't observed any large-scale cyberattacks on Israeli domains protected by Cloudflare....
April 09, 2024 12:04 AM
Total eclipse of the Internet: traffic impacts in Mexico, the US, and Canada
Cloudflare’s data shows a clear impact on Internet traffic from Mexico to the US, and Canada, following the path of totality of the total solar eclipse that occurred on April 8, 2024
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March 26, 2024 1:00 PM
From .com to .beauty: The evolving threat landscape of unwanted email
In this 2023-early 2024 email analysis, we examine how certain generic Top-Level Domains (TLDs) are primarily used for spam and phishing, and their evolution over a year. There are many trends in email threats to examine...
March 14, 2024 6:03 PM
Undersea cable failures cause Internet disruptions for multiple African countries
Internet connectivity in several African countries was disrupted on March 14, 2024, beginning at approximately 05:00 UTC. Based on published reports and social media posts from impacted network providers, the disruption is believed to be due to multiple undersea cable failures in...
March 08, 2024 2:00 PM
Launching email security insights on Cloudflare Radar
The new Email Security section on Cloudflare Radar provides insights into the latest trends around threats found in malicious email, sources of spam and malicious email, and the adoption of technologies designed to prevent abuse of email...
February 12, 2024 5:21 PM
A look at Internet traffic trends during Super Bowl LVIII
Super Bowl LVIII was a close game, with the Chiefs winning in overtime. In this post, we explore how key moments during the game impacted Internet traffic, as well as looking at the traffic trends driven by advertisements that aired during the game...