Cloudflare Q3 DDoS report: 8,200 attacks/hour as short bursts surge 208%, mega attacks drop 69%
Cloudflare Blog · rss · 2026-10-29
Cloudflare's 26th DDoS Threat Report (Q3 2026) shows 18.2M network-layer attacks mitigated (8,226/hour) and 14.4T HTTP DDoS requests.
- Short bursts (<10 min, <1 Gbps) surged 208% YoY — the signature of DDoS-for-hire booters
- Hyper-volumetric >1 Tbps attacks fell from 805 to 251, matching takedowns of four major IoT botnets (Aisuru, KimWolf, JackSkid, Mossad)
- CLDAP floods collapsed 99.5%; DNS amplification jumped 215%, UDP floods rose to 31.31% of attacks
- US reclaimed #1 most-attacked, China #2, Indonesia #3; Canada and Israel spiked; Mirai-class mitigation peaked at 57.23 PB with one attack lasting 49.7 hours
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