Beat - An Acoustics Inspired DDoS Attack
December 22, 2020 12:00 PM
On the week of Black Friday, Cloudflare automatically detected and mitigated “Beat” - an acoustics inspired DDoS attacks that targeted a Magic Transit customer. ...
Network-layer DDoS attack trends for Q3 2020
November 18, 2020 12:00 PM
In Q3 ‘20, Cloudflare observed a surge in DDoS attacks, with double the number of DDoS attacks and more attack vectors deployed than ever — with a notable surge in protocol-specific DDoS attacks such as mDNS, Memcached, and Jenkins amplification floods....
Announcing Spectrum DDoS Analytics and DDoS Insights & Trends
November 07, 2020 12:00 PM
We’re excited to announce the expansion of the Network Analytics dashboard to Spectrum customers on the Enterprise plan. Additionally, this announcement introduces two major dashboard improvements for easier reporting and investigation....
A Virtual Product Management Internship Experience
October 22, 2020 1:14 PM
In July 2020, I joined Cloudflare as a Product Management Intern on the DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) team to enhance the benefits that Network Analytics brings to our customers. This is my experience....
Know When You’ve Been DDoS’d
October 05, 2020 11:00 AM
Today we’re announcing the availability of DDoS attack alerts. The alerts are available for free for all Cloudflare’s customers on paid plans. Learn how to create an alert....
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August 05, 2020 1:00 PM
Network-layer DDoS attack trends for Q2 2020
This quarter, we saw an increasing number of large scale attacks; both in terms of packet rate and bit rate. In fact, 88% of all DDoS attacks in 2020 that peaked above 100 Gbps were launched after shelter-in-place went into effect in March....
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July 14, 2020 11:00 AM
flowtrackd: DDoS Protection with Unidirectional TCP Flow Tracking
flowtrackd is a software-defined DDoS protection system that significantly improves our ability to automatically detect and mitigate even the most complex TCP-based DDoS attacks. If you are a Magic Transit customer, this feature will be enabled by default at no additional cost on...
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July 09, 2020 11:00 AM
Mitigating a 754 Million PPS DDoS Attack Automatically
On June 20, Cloudflare automatically mitigated a highly volumetric DDoS attack that peaked above 754 million packets per second. The attack was part of an organized four day campaign starting on June 18 and ending on June 21....
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June 02, 2020 8:12 PM
Cyberattacks since the murder of George Floyd
As we’ve often seen in the past, real world protest and violence is usually accompanied by attacks on the Internet. This past week has been no exception. ...
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May 15, 2020 11:00 AM
Network-Layer DDoS Attack Trends for Q1 2020
In Q1 2020, traffic levels have increased by over 50% in many countries, but have DDoS attacks increased as well?...
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April 30, 2020 3:26 PM
DDoS attacks have evolved, and so should your DDoS protection
Building a modern DDoS solution that is truly effective in thwarting ever-evolving DDoS attacks, to protect all of our customers has been a core tenet for us - enabling us to be an industry leader....
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April 13, 2020 7:06 PM
Cloudflare for SSH, RDP and Minecraft
Cloudflare now covers SSH, RDP and Minecraft, offering DDoS protection and increased network performance. Spectrum pay-as-you-go now available on all paid plans....
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April 10, 2020 11:00 AM
Rolling With The Punches: Shifting Attack Tactics & Dropping Packets Faster & Cheaper At The Edge
Over the past 6 months, volumetric DDoS attacks decreased by 82%. However volumetric attacks are not gone yet, still peaking as high as 418 Gbps. In this post, we cover the changing attack landscape and how Cloudflare adapts and evolves to keep the internet safe....
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March 16, 2020 12:00 PM
Announcing Network Analytics
Back in March 2019, we released Firewall Analytics which provides insights into HTTP security events across all of Cloudflare's protection suite; Firewall rule matches, HTTP DDoS Attacks, Site Security Level which harnesses Cloudflare's threat intelligence, and more....
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October 24, 2019 1:00 PM
Who DDoS'd Austin?
It was a scorching Monday on July 22 as temperatures soared above 37°C (99°F) in Austin, TX, the live music capital of the world. Only hours earlier, the last crowds dispersed from the historic East 6th Street entertainment district. ...
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August 13, 2019 5:00 PM
On the recent HTTP/2 DoS attacks
Today, multiple Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerabilities were disclosed for a number of HTTP/2 server implementations. Cloudflare uses NGINX for HTTP/2. Customers using Cloudflare are already protected against these attacks....
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June 13, 2019 1:00 PM
Protecting Project Galileo websites from HTTP attacks
Yesterday, we celebrated the fifth anniversary of Project Galileo. More than 550 websites are part of this program, and they have something in common: each and every one of them has been subject to attacks in the last month....
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March 20, 2019 3:01 PM
Spectrum for UDP: DDoS protection and firewalling for unreliable protocols
Today, we're announcing Spectrum for UDP. Spectrum for UDP works the same as Spectrum for TCP: Spectrum sits between your clients and your origin. Incoming connections are proxied through, whilst applying our DDoS protection and IP Firewall rules. ...
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November 28, 2018 7:59 PM
L4Drop: XDP DDoS Mitigations
Efficient packet dropping is a key part of Cloudflare’s distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack mitigations. In this post, we introduce a new tool in our packet dropping arsenal: L4Drop....
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