NEWS BRIEF
What happened
Cloudflare’s third-quarter DDoS report describes a shift toward frequent, shorter attacks across its network. The company says 96% of the network-layer attacks it mitigated ended in under ten minutes and 98% stayed below 1 Gbps. It also reports changes in amplification protocols and a decline in attacks above 1 Tbps compared with the previous quarter.
What the announcement does not establish
The figures describe Cloudflare’s observed and mitigated traffic. They should not be read as a census of all Internet attacks or as a prediction for an individual organization.
Primary source: Cloudflare: original announcement (2026-10-29). Sources checked November 3, 2026.