Cloudflare 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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Attacks rose 208% year over year, but 98% stayed under 1 Gbps and most ended within ten minutes.
Most attacks lasted under ten minutes and stayed below 1 Gbps, while terabit-scale floods fell nearly 69% from the prior quarter.
Attacks over 1 Tbps fell to 251 from 805 after takedowns of four large IoT botnets.
NETSCOUT logged 9.1 million DDoS attacks in H1 2026, with terabit-scale floods up 1,286%.
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