CYBER● ELEVATED4h ago · Oct 31, 2026, 4:56 AM
Cloudflare Reports 18.2 Million Network-Layer DDoS Attacks in Q3, Up 38%
The Hacker News · global
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 14.4 trillion HTTP DDoS requests in the third quarter of 2026. That amounts to 197,400 attacks per day, or one attack every 0.44
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