Elections are not just a matter of casting ballots. They depend on citizens being able to register to vote and accessing information about candidates and the election process, which in turn depend on the strength and security of the Internet. Despite the risks posed by potential cyberattacks aimed to disrupt democracy, Cloudflare did not observe […]
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4.2 Tbps of bad packets and a whole lot more: Cloudflare's Q3 DDoS report
Welcome to the 19th edition of the Cloudflare DDoS Threat Report. Released quarterly, these reports provide an in-depth analysis of the DDoS threat landscape as observed across the Cloudflare network. This edition focuses on the third quarter of 2024. With a 296 Terabit per second (Tbps) network located in over 330 cities worldwide, Cloudflare is […]
How Cloudflare auto-mitigated world record 3.8 Tbps DDoS attack
Since early September, Cloudflare’s DDoS protection systems have been combating a month-long campaign of hyper-volumetric L3/4 DDoS attacks. Cloudflare’s defenses mitigated over one hundred hyper-volumetric L3/4 DDoS attacks throughout the month, with many exceeding 2 billion packets per second (Bpps) and 3 terabits per second (Tbps). The largest attack peaked 3.8 Tbps — the largest […]
How the Harris-Trump US presidential debate influenced Internet traffic
Much has changed in the 2024 United States presidential election since the June 27 debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, then the presumptive nominees for the November election. Now, over two months later, on September 10, the debate was between Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, and Donald Trump, the Republican nominee. In this post, […]
What is DDoSing
Nowadays, the term DDoS — or Distributed Denial of Service — raises the heart rate of most webmasters. Though many don’t know exactly what DDoSing is, they might be familiar with the effects of getting DDoSed: an extremely sluggish, dysfunctional, or entirely shut down website. In this article, we’ll define DDoSing, discuss the most common […]
How to Stop a DDoS Attack in 5 Steps
As a webmaster, keeping your site online during large traffic spikes is what you strive for. But how can you be sure traffic spikes are legitimate? And more importantly, how do you react when they aren’t? The unfortunate reality is DDoS attacks can be a threat for websites big and small. In this post, we’ll […]
HTTP/2 Zero-Day Vulnerability Results in Record-Breaking DDoS Attacks
Earlier today, Cloudflare, along with Google and Amazon AWS, disclosed the existence of a novel zero-day vulnerability dubbed the “HTTP/2 Rapid Reset” attack. This attack exploits a weakness in the HTTP/2 protocol to generate enormous, hyper-volumetric Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Cloudflare has mitigated a barrage of these attacks in recent months, including an […]
HTTP/2 Rapid Reset: deconstructing the record-breaking attack
Starting on Aug 25, 2023, we started to notice some unusually big HTTP attacks hitting many of our customers. These attacks were detected and mitigated by our automated DDoS system. It was not long however, before they started to reach record breaking sizes — and eventually peaked just above 201 million requests per second. This […]
Application Security Report: Q2 2023
Cloudflare has a unique vantage point on the Internet. From this position, we are able to see, explore, and identify trends that would otherwise go unnoticed. In this report we are doing just that and sharing our insights into Internet-wide application security trends. This report is the third edition of our Application Security Report. The […]
An August reading list about online security and 2023 attacks landscape
In 2023, cybersecurity continues to be in most cases a need-to-have for those who don’t want to take chances on getting caught in a cyberattack and its consequences. Attacks have gotten more sophisticated, while conflicts (online and offline, and at the same time) continue, including in Ukraine. Governments have heightened their cyber warnings and put […]
