Cloudflare Reports 18.2 Million Network-Layer DDoS Attacks in Q3, Up 38%
Summary: Cloudflare autonomously mitigated 18.2 million network-layer DDoS attacks and 14.4 trillion HTTP DDoS requests in Q3 2026, averaging 8,226 attacks per hour, or one every 0.44 seconds. That compares with 13.2 million L3 attacks in Q2 and 10.0 million in Q1, while short-burst attacks under 10 minutes and 1 Gbps rose 208% and hyper-volumetric attacks above 1 Tbps fell 69% from 805 to 251.
What's compelling: DDoS-for-hire booter and stresser services are credited with hundreds of thousands of these attacks, and new variants like Dysphoria and Evooo1Bot have emerged even after law enforcement actions against AISURU, KimWolf, JackSkid, and Mossad. The most targeted sectors include media and publishing, IT services, gambling and casinos, software, and telecommunications, with Canada and Israel newly entering the top 10 attacked countries.
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