Cloudflare reports 18.2 million L3 DDoS attacks in Q3
That is about 8,226 network-layer attacks an hour, up from 13.2 million in Q2, plus 14.4 trillion HTTP DDoS requests.
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Malware
Dysphoria
- Mentions · 7d3
- Mentions · 30d3
- All mentions4
- First seenSep 1, 2026
- Last mentioned3h ago
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4 articles · newest firstCloudflare mitigated 18.2 million DDoS attacks in Q3 2026
Attacks rose 208% year over year, but 98% stayed under 1 Gbps and most ended within ten minutes.
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Cloudflare: short DDoS bursts rose 208% in Q3 2026
Attacks over 1 Tbps fell to 251 from 805 after takedowns of four large IoT botnets.
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ThreatsDay: 296K IoT Botnet, 100+ Water Systems Targeted, SharePoint RCE Chain + 27 New Stories
Weekly ThreatsDay bulletin details a ShinyHunters-style social engineering hit on ReliaQuest, the 296,000-device Dysphoria IoT botnet, and several new malware families.
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Appears with
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- Mossadmalware · 3
- JackSkidmalware · 3
- Evooo1Botmalware · 3
- Aisurumalware · 3
- Cloudforce Oneorganization · 3
- KimWolfmalware · 3
- Miraimalware · 2
- Cisco Talosvendor · 1
- Polygonproduct · 1
- ShinyHuntersthreat actor · 1
- Shadowserver Foundationvendor · 1
- iVerifyvendor · 1
- ReliaQuestorganization · 1
- Electronproduct · 1
- JWRmalware · 1
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