Cloudflare Radar’s new ASN pages
March 24, 2022 1:32 PM
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...
Application security: Cloudflare’s view
March 21, 2022 12:59 PM
In this post, we share some of the insights we’ve gathered from the 32 million HTTP requests/second that pass through our network...
DNSSEC issues take Fiji domains offline
March 09, 2022 10:11 AM
DNSSEC issues with the .fj ccTLD caused problems reaching websites on the island nation...
Internet traffic patterns in Ukraine since February 21, 2022
March 04, 2022 4:10 PM
Cloudflare operates in more than 250 cities worldwide where we connect our equipment to the Internet to provide our broad range of services...
Internet is back in Tonga after 38 days of outage
February 22, 2022 1:04 PM
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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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January 05, 2022 4:14 PM
How The Gambia lost access to the Internet for more than 8 hours
On the morning of January 4, 2022, citizens of The Gambia woke up to a country-wide Internet outage...
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December 23, 2021 3:51 PM
Cloudflare Radar's 2021 Year In Review
In 2021, we continued to live with the effects of the COVID pandemic and Internet traffic was also impacted (differently than in 2020) from it....
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December 20, 2021 3:09 PM
In 2021, the Internet went for TikTok, space and beyond
Join us in our Year in Review 2021 focused on the most popular domains-websites...
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November 30, 2021 5:49 PM
Thanksgiving’s biggest online shopping day was Cyber Monday, but other days were close behind
November comes, the temperatures start to get colder for most of the planet's population (87% live in the Northern Hemisphere) and many are also starting to prepare for the festive season. ...
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November 29, 2021 6:30 PM
Attack Maps now available on Radar
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....
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November 26, 2021 3:51 PM
How the US paused shopping (and browsing) for Thanksgiving
Throughout the pandemic we saw different trends caused by people being more at home than usual, but Internet patterns also change at specific times of the year (like when students go back to school or when it’s colder outside) or on some holidays like Thanksgiving....
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November 26, 2021 1:59 PM
Heard in the halls of Web Summit 2021
Global in-person events are back. We present a few ideas from Web Summit 2021 about the future and where the Internet is going. Check the interviews we’ve done at the event (from the lack of Internet access to Web3). ...
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November 22, 2021 4:11 PM
Burkina Faso Internet shutdown
People living in Burkina Faso are facing an Internet shutdown. Cloudflare Radar shows that after 22:00 UTC (the same local time) Internet traffic went down significantly, something that has happened in the context of social tensions in the country that started on November 14, 202...
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