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.
Attacks over 1 Tbps fell to 251 from 805 after takedowns of four large IoT botnets.
Cloudflare launches Threat Signals, free agentic AI skills that turn open-source threat reports into normalized IOCs and WAF-ready threat events.
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