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...
The Grinch Bot is Stealing Christmas!
December 03, 2021 6:59 PM
Bots moved quickly this holiday season, launching over 1 trillion requests on Black Friday but quickly receding after the weekend....
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....
A Brief History of the Meris Botnet
November 09, 2021 12:59 PM
Over the past months, we’ve been tracking and analyzing the activity of the Meris botnet....
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October 07, 2021 2:20 AM
Update on recent VoIP attacks: What should I do if I’m attacked?
Because of the sustained attacks we are observing, we are sharing details on recent attack patterns, what steps they should take before an attack, and what to do after an attack has taken place....
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October 04, 2021 9:08 PM
Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the Internet
Today at 1651 UTC, we opened an internal incident entitled "Facebook DNS lookup returning SERVFAIL" because we were worried that something was wrong with our DNS resolver 1.1.1.1. But as we were about to post on our public status page we realized something else more serious was ...
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October 01, 2021 12:05 AM
May I ask who’s calling, please? A recent rise in VoIP DDoS attacks
Over the past month, multiple Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) providers have been targeted by Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks from entities claiming to be REvil. ...
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August 19, 2021 12:58 PM
Cloudflare thwarts 17.2M rps DDoS attack — the largest ever reported
Earlier this summer, Cloudflare’s autonomous edge DDoS protection systems automatically detected and mitigated a 17.2 million request-per-second (rps) DDoS attack, an attack almost three times larger than any previous one that we're aware of. ...
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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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April 19, 2021 11:00 AM
DDoS attack trends for 2021 Q1
Today, along with this deep-dive analysis blog, we’re excited to announce the new Radar DDoS Report page, our first fully automated data notebook built on top of Jupyter, Clickhouse, and Workers....
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February 09, 2021 2:00 PM
2020 U.S. Election: Cybersecurity Analysis
As we protect many entities in the election space, we have the ability to identify, learn and analyze attack trends targeted at these sites that provide authoritative election information....
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January 22, 2021 12:00 PM
Network-layer DDoS attack trends for Q4 2020
DDoS attack trends in the final quarter of 2020 defied norms in many ways. For the first time in 2020, Cloudflare observed an increase in the number of large DDoS attacks. Specifically, the number of attacks over 500Mbps and 50K pps saw a massive uptick. ...
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January 12, 2021 4:55 PM
Cloudflare Radar's 2020 Year In Review
Today we are launching a dedicated Year In Review page with interactive maps and charts where you can explore what changed on the Internet in 2020. Year In Review is part of Cloudflare Radar. ...
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December 16, 2020 5:00 PM
Trend data on the SolarWinds Orion compromise
Analyzing SUNBURST malware activity seen on Cloudflare’s public DNS resolver....
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November 18, 2020 12:00 PM
Network-layer DDoS attack trends for Q3 2020
In Q3 ‘20, Cloudflare observed a surge in DDoS attacks, with double the number of DDoS attacks and more attack vectors deployed than ever — with a notable surge in protocol-specific DDoS attacks such as mDNS, Memcached, and Jenkins amplification floods....
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October 20, 2020 11:00 AM
Bot Attack trends for Jan-Jul 2020
Automated traffic makes up almost 40% of total Internet traffic. Let’s take a look at how bots behaved over 2020 so far....
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August 05, 2020 1:00 PM
Network-layer DDoS attack trends for Q2 2020
This quarter, we saw an increasing number of large scale attacks; both in terms of packet rate and bit rate. In fact, 88% of all DDoS attacks in 2020 that peaked above 100 Gbps were launched after shelter-in-place went into effect in March....
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May 15, 2020 11:00 AM
Network-Layer DDoS Attack Trends for Q1 2020
In Q1 2020, traffic levels have increased by over 50% in many countries, but have DDoS attacks increased as well?...
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