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April 04, 2022 3:36 PM
Internet disruptions overview for Q1 2022
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...
March 29, 2022 12:37 PM
How the Oscars impacted the Internet (at least in the US)
How the Internet was impacted by the Oscars 2022 moments, including the Will Smith incident...
March 24, 2022 1:32 PM
Cloudflare Radar’s new ASN pages
Autonomous Systems (ASes) are a group of routable IP prefixes belonging to a single entity or organization, and is one of the fundamental building blocks of the Internet...
March 21, 2022 12:59 PM
Application security: Cloudflare’s view
In this post, we share some of the insights we’ve gathered from the 32 million HTTP requests/second that pass through our network...
March 09, 2022 10:11 AM
DNSSEC issues take Fiji domains offline
DNSSEC issues with the .fj ccTLD caused problems reaching websites on the island nation...
March 04, 2022 4:10 PM
Internet traffic patterns in Ukraine since February 21, 2022
Cloudflare operates in more than 250 cities worldwide where we connect our equipment to the Internet to provide our broad range of services...
February 22, 2022 1:04 PM
Internet is back in Tonga after 38 days of outage
Tonga, the South Pacific archipelago nation (with 169 islands), was reconnected to the Internet this early morning (UTC) and is back online after successful repairs to the undersea cable that was damaged on Saturday, January 15, 2022, by the January 14, volcanic eruption...
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...
January 26, 2022 1:59 PM
Landscape of API Traffic
More than 50% of all traffic processed by Cloudflare is API-based, and it’s growing twice as fast as traditional web traffic. This huge growth is driven by a few industries, and it calls for the development of dedicated security solutions...
January 24, 2022 1:44 PM
Burkina Faso experiencing second major Internet disruption this year
The early hours of Sunday, January 23, 2022, started in Burkina Faso with an Internet outage or shutdown...
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...
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...
January 10, 2022 1:58 PM
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...
January 05, 2022 6:04 PM
Internet shut down in Kazakhstan amid unrest
In Kazakhstan, the year had barely got going when yesterday disruptions of Internet access ended up in a nationwide Internet shutdown from today, January 5, 2022...