DDoS
Cloudflare
Wed Nov 20 2024
Bigger and badder: how DDoS attack sizes have evolved over the last decade
If we plot the metrics associated with large DDoS attacks observed in the last 10 years, does it show a straight, steady increase in an expo...
Cloudflare-Radar
Wed Nov 06 2024
Exploring Internet traffic shifts and cyber attacks during the 2024 US election
Election Day 2024 in the US saw a surge in cyber activity.
DDoS-Reports
Wed Oct 23 2024
4.2 Tbps of bad packets and a whole lot more: Cloudflare's Q3 DDoS report
The number of DDoS attacks spiked in the third quarter of 2024.
Training a million models per day to save customers of all sizes from DDoS attacks
In this post we will describe how we use anomaly detection to watch for novel DDoS attacks.
Wed Oct 02 2024
How Cloudflare auto-mitigated world record 3.8 Tbps DDoS attack
Over the past couple of weeks, Cloudflare's DDoS protection systems have automatically and successfully mitigated multiple hyper-volumetric ...
Wed Sep 11 2024
How the Harris-Trump US presidential debate influenced Internet traffic
See how the first 2024 US presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump influenced Internet traffic patterns compared to the Bi...
Elections
Mon Jul 08 2024
French elections: political cyber attacks and Internet traffic shifts
Fri Jul 05 2024
UK election day 2024: traffic trends and attacks on political parties
Wed Jul 03 2024
First round of French election: party attacks and a modest traffic dip
Fri Jun 21 2024
How the UEFA Euro 2024 football games are impacting local Internet traffic
Attacks
Thu Jun 06 2024
Dutch political websites hit by cyber attacks as EU voting starts
The 2024 European Parliament election began in the Netherlands on June 6.
Tue Apr 16 2024
DDoS threat report for 2024 Q1
2024 started with a bang.
Holocaust
Fri Jan 26 2024
Cyber attacks targeting Jewish and Holocaust educational websites surge by 872% in 2023
In 2023, Cloudflare mitigated 35.
Tue Jan 09 2024
DDoS threat report for 2023 Q4
Welcome to the sixteenth edition of Cloudflare’s DDoS Threat Report.
Tue Nov 28 2023
Cyber Week: Analyzing Internet traffic and e-commerce trends
How significant are Cyber Week days on the Internet? Is it a global phenomenon? Does e-commerce interest peak on Black Friday or Cyber Monda...
Thanksgiving
Fri Nov 24 2023
Do hackers eat turkey? And other Thanksgiving Internet trends
Thu Oct 26 2023
DDoS threat report for 2023 Q3
In the past quarter, DDoS attacks surged by 65%.
Mon Oct 23 2023
Cyber attacks in the Israel-Hamas war
Since the October 7 Hamas attack, DDoS attackers have been targeting Israeli newspaper and media websites as well as software companies and ...
Tue Oct 10 2023
HTTP/2 Rapid Reset: deconstructing the record-breaking attack
Security
HTTP/2 Zero-Day vulnerability results in record-breaking DDoS attacks
The “HTTP/2 Rapid Reset” attack exploits a weakness in the HTTP/2 protocol to generate enormous, hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks.
Mon Aug 21 2023
Application Security Report: Q2 2023
We are back with a quarterly update of our Application Security report.
Reading-List
An August reading list about online security and 2023 attacks landscape
Tue Jul 18 2023
DDoS threat report for 2023 Q2
Q2 2023 saw an unprecedented escalation in DDoS attack sophistication.
