Cloudflare reports 18.2 million L3 DDoS attacks in Q3
Original title: Cloudflare Reports 18.2 Million Network-Layer DDoS Attacks in Q3, Up 38%
That is about 8,226 network-layer attacks an hour, up from 13.2 million in Q2, plus 14.4 trillion HTTP DDoS requests.
Cloudflare said it mitigated 18.2 million network-layer DDoS attacks and 14.4 trillion HTTP DDoS requests in the third quarter of 2026. The company links the rise to DDoS-for-hire booter and stresser services. Attacks over 1 Tbps fell 69% quarter over quarter, which Cloudflare ties to earlier law-enforcement action, while short bursts under 10 minutes and 1 Gbps rose 208%. DNS amplification grew, and new botnet variants Dysphoria and Evooo1Bot appeared.
Unconfirmed: The drop in attacks over 1 Tbps is described as likely tied to March enforcement actions.
- Q2 and Q1 recorded 13.2 million and 10.0 million L3 attacks.
- Hyper-volumetric attacks over 1 Tbps fell from 805 in Q2 to 251 in Q3.
- DNS amplification rose 215% to 3.43% of network-layer attacks.
- CLDAP floods declined, according to Cloudforce One.
- Top attacked countries were the U.S., China, Indonesia, the U.K., and Türkiye.
Impact: Network and HTTP denial of service against many industries
- Vendors
- Cloudflare
- Organizations
- Cloudforce One
From the original article
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Threat actors are launching about 8,226 network-layer distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks per hour, Cloudflare revealed Thursday. The web infrastructure and security company said it autonomously mitigated 18. 2 million network-layer (L3) DDoS attacks and 14.
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