How The Gambia lost access to the Internet for more than 8 hours
January 05, 2022 4:14 PM
On the morning of January 4, 2022, citizens of The Gambia woke up to a country-wide Internet outage...
Cloudflare Radar's 2021 Year In Review
December 23, 2021 3:51 PM
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....
In 2021, the Internet went for TikTok, space and beyond
December 20, 2021 3:09 PM
Join us in our Year in Review 2021 focused on the most popular domains-websites...
Thanksgiving’s biggest online shopping day was Cyber Monday, but other days were close behind
November 30, 2021 5:49 PM
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. ...
Attack Maps now available on Radar
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....
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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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November 22, 2021 2:44 PM
Sudan was cut off from the Internet for 25 days
The Internet started to come back to Sudan (with limitations) this past Thursday, November 18. This happens after 25 days (three weeks and four days) of an almost complete shutdown that affected the whole country. ...
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November 09, 2021 12:59 PM
A Brief History of the Meris Botnet
Over the past months, we’ve been tracking and analyzing the activity of the Meris botnet....
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November 05, 2021 1:01 PM
When students go back to school mobile usage goes down
September is the “get back to school” month for many. Looking at our data there’s a global trend: mobile traffic lost importance (compared with desktop traffic) in September 2021 compared to August....
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November 04, 2021 12:58 PM
DDoS Attack Trends for Q3 2021
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....
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November 01, 2021 10:41 AM
Sudan: seven days without Internet access (and counting)
It's not every day that there is no Internet access in an entire country. In the case of Sudan, it has been five days without Internet after political turmoil that started last Monday, October 25, 2021...
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October 25, 2021 7:00 PM
Sudan woke up without Internet
Today, October 25, following political turmoil, Sudan woke up without Internet access....
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October 09, 2021 12:58 PM
Where is mobile traffic the most and least popular?
We used Cloudflare Radar to find out those countries on the planet that have more (and less) mobile traffic on the Internet. Africa and the Middle East are the areas of the planet where mobile traffic dominates the Internet experience...
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September 30, 2021 9:30 AM
Increased interest in Spanish media after the La Palma volcanic eruption
Cloudflare Radar shows how Spanish media outlets had an increase in Internet traffic after the volcano eruption on the island of La Palma. ...
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July 29, 2021 1:02 PM
Working with those who protect human rights around the world
Today, we are announcing Radar Alerts, a new program to help our civil society partners track and document Internet shutdowns and protect democratic elections around the world from cyberattacks....
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July 20, 2021 2:07 PM
DDoS attack trends for 2021 Q2
The DDoS attack trends observed over Cloudflare’s network in 2021 Q2 paint a picture that reflects the overall global cyber threat landscape. Here are some highlights of DDoS attack trends observed in 2021 Q2. ...
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July 12, 2021 4:41 PM
The UEFA EURO 2020 final as seen online by Cloudflare Radar
Cloudflare has been publishing statistics about all the teams involved in EURO 2020 and traffic to betting websites, sports newspapers, streaming services and sponsors. Here’s a quick look at some specific highlights from England’s and Italy’s EURO 2020....
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June 22, 2021 10:19 AM
Sudan's exam-related Internet shutdowns
To prevent cheating in exams many countries restrict or even shut down Internet access during critical exam hours. I wrote two weeks ago about Syria having planned Internet shutdowns during June, for exams. Sudan is doing the same thing and has had four shutdowns so far. ...
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