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February 23, 2023 3:58 PM
One year of war in Ukraine: Internet trends, attacks, and resilience
This blog post reports on Internet insights during an historical war in Europe that has been seen and shared online, and discusses how Ukraine's Internet remained resilient in spite of dozens of disruptions in three different stages of the conflict....
February 13, 2023 10:23 PM
A look at Internet traffic trends during Super Bowl LVII
We look at who the biggest winners were among Super Bowl advertisers, and examine traffic trends for food delivery services, social media, and sports and betting sites. We also review city and state-level traffic trends, as well as related email threat volume in the weeks ahead o...
February 13, 2023 6:37 PM
Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking 71 million request-per-second DDoS attack
This was a weekend of record-breaking DDoS attacks. Over the weekend, Cloudflare detected and mitigated dozens of hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks. The majority of attacks peaked in the ballpark of 50-70 million requests per second (rps) with the largest exceeding 71 million rps...
January 27, 2023 2:00 PM
Cyberattacks on Holocaust educational websites increased in 2022
Today, 78 years after the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, we mark the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
With Cloudflare’s Project Galileo, we protect Holocaust educational websites and at risk public interest groups. Read more to see how attacks on these groups inc...
January 10, 2023 1:00 PM
Cloudflare DDoS threat report for 2022 Q4
In Q4, Cloudflare mitigated millions of DDoS attacks. Attack durations increase, volumetric attacks surged, and ransom DDoS attacks persist. Travel & events industries were hit hardest and over 90% of traffic to Chinese Internet properties were L3/4 DDoS attacks. Read more on our...
December 22, 2022 2:00 PM
Cloudflare Radar 2022 Year in Review
We’re excited to present the Cloudflare Radar 2022 Year In Review, featuring interactive charts, graphs, and maps you can use to explore what changed on the Internet throughout this past year...
November 25, 2022 6:32 PM
An early look at Thanksgiving 2022 Internet trends
Yesterday, November 24, 2022, was Thanksgiving Day in the US. Last year, we saw how the US paused shopping (and browsing) for Thanksgiving. So, how was it this year?...
November 11, 2022 6:14 PM
2022 US midterm elections attack analysis
For Athenian Project and Cloudflare for Campaigns participant websites, overall traffic volume ramped as Election Day approached...
November 03, 2022 7:42 PM
How the Brazilian Presidential elections affected Internet traffic
What happens to the Internet traffic of a country when an important election happens. In Brazil, the first round of the Presidential elections brought a 10% decrease in Internet traffic, but the runoff on Sunday had a bigger: 21% drop...
October 12, 2022 1:00 PM
Cloudflare DDoS threat report 2022 Q3
In Q3, DDoS attacks increased by 111% YoY, Cloudflare auto-mitigated a 2.5 Tbps attack targeting a Minecraft server as multi-terabit scale DDoS attacks become increasingly frequent. Read more in our 2022 Q3 DDoS Report...
September 30, 2022 1:00 PM
The status page the Internet needs: Cloudflare Radar Outage Center
The new Cloudflare Radar Outage Center (CROC), launched as part of Radar 2.0, is intended to be an archive of information about Internet outages observed by Cloudflare...
August 25, 2022 6:08 PM
Deep dives & how the Internet works
We have amazing deep dives in our blog, but also research and how the Internet works kind of stories. Here are some highlights from 2022, and before (with glimpses of our history)....
July 14, 2022 5:16 PM
How the James Webb Telescope's cosmic pictures impacted the Internet
We show how the July 11-12 James Webb Telescope images that were revealed had an impact on DNS traffic in NASA and ESA websites, video and image hosting platforms, and news websites. The ‘cosmic’ results may be surprising...
July 14, 2022 1:00 PM
Mantis - the most powerful botnet to date
We named the botnet that launched the 26M rps (requests per second) DDoS attack "Mantis" as it is also like the Mantis shrimp, small but very powerful...