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July 18, 2023 1:00 PM

###### DDoS threat report for 2023 Q2

Q2 2023 saw an unprecedented escalation in DDoS attack sophistication. Pro-Russian hacktivists REvil, Killnet and Anonymous Sudan joined forces to attack Western sites. Mitel vulnerability exploits surged by a whopping 532%, and attacks on crypto rocketed up by 600%....

April 11, 2023 1:00 PM

###### DDoS threat report for 2023 Q1

Threat actors kicked off 2023 with a bang. The start of the year was characterized by a series of hacktivist campaigns against Western targets, and record-breaking hyper volumetric attacks...

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...

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...

July 06, 2022 12:55 PM

###### DDoS attack trends for 2022 Q2

Welcome to our 2022 Q2 DDoS report. This report includes insights and trends about the DDoS threat landscape — as observed across the global Cloudflare network...

April 12, 2022 1:12 PM

###### DDoS Attack Trends for 2022 Q1

Welcome to our first DDoS report of 2022, and the ninth in total so far. This report includes new data points and insights both in the application-layer and network-layer sections — as observed across the global Cloudflare network between January and March 2022...

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...

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....

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....

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. ...

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....

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....

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?...