April 14, 2024 9:23 PM
On April 13, 2024, Iran launched a retaliatory attack on Israel. We examined its potential impact on Internet traffic and attacks. While there were some shifts in traffic, we haven't observed any large-scale cyberattacks on Israeli domains protected by Cloudflare....
April 09, 2024 12:04 AM
Cloudflare’s data shows a clear impact on Internet traffic from Mexico to the US, and Canada, following the path of totality of the total solar eclipse that occurred on April 8, 2024 ...
March 14, 2024 6:03 PM
Internet connectivity in several African countries was disrupted on March 14, 2024, beginning at approximately 05:00 UTC. Based on published reports and social media posts from impacted network providers, the disruption is believed to be due to multiple undersea cable failures in the region...
February 12, 2024 5:21 PM
Super Bowl LVIII was a close game, with the Chiefs winning in overtime. In this post, we explore how key moments during the game impacted Internet traffic, as well as looking at the traffic trends driven by advertisements that aired during the game...
January 22, 2024 2:00 PM
In this post, we review selected Internet disruptions observed by Cloudflare during the fourth quarter of 2023, supported by traffic graphs from Cloudflare Radar and other internal Cloudflare tools, and grouped by associated cause or common geography...
December 12, 2023 1:00 PM
The 2023 Cloudflare Radar Year in Review is our fourth annual review of Internet trends and patterns observed throughout the year at both a global and country/region level across a variety of traffic, connectivity, and speed metrics, based on data from Cloudflare’s network...
November 24, 2023 3:11 PM
Offline for turkey time: Which US states logged off on Thanksgiving Day? Is there a difference between coastal and central states? Do hackers take a Thanksgiving break? Are food delivery services gaining or losing traffic? We answer those questions and more...
October 25, 2023 1:05 PM
In this post, we review selected Internet disruptions observed by Cloudflare during the third quarter of 2023, supported by traffic graphs from Cloudflare Radar and other internal Cloudflare tools, and grouped by associated cause or common geography...
October 14, 2023 12:00 AM
On October 13, 2023, Cloudflare’s Cloudforce One Threat Operations Team became aware of a malicious Google Android application impersonating the real-time rocket alert app, Red Alert, which provides real-time rocket alerts for Israeli citizens...
October 09, 2023 8:05 PM
On Saturday, October 7, 2023, attacks from the Palestinian group Hamas launched from the Gaza Strip against the south of Israel started a new conflict in the region. Cloudflare's data shows that Internet traffic was impacted in different ways...
September 26, 2023 1:00 PM
Cloudflare Radar now displays country and ASN traffic anomalies in the Outage Center as they are detected, as well as publishing anomaly information via API. We are also launching Radar notifications, enabling users to subscribe to notifications about traffic anomalies...
September 26, 2023 1:00 PM
Cloudflare Radar will be publishing anomalous traffic events for countries and Autonomous Systems (ASes). These events are the same ones referenced above that have been triggering our internal workflow to validate and confirm disruptions...
September 22, 2023 1:00 PM
Cloudflare has owned exmaple.com for a few years now, but don’t confuse it with example.com! example.com is a reserved domain name set by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), under the direction of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)...
July 27, 2023 1:05 PM
In this post, we review selected Internet disruptions observed by Cloudflare during the second quarter of 2023, supported by traffic graphs from Cloudflare Radar and other internal Cloudflare tools, and grouped by associated cause or common geography...
May 12, 2023 7:00 PM
Following the arrest of ex-PM Imran Khan, violent protests led the Pakistani government to order the shutdown of mobile Internet services and blocking of social media platforms. We examine the impact of these shutdowns on Internet traffic in Pakistan and traffic to Cloudflare’s 1...
May 10, 2023 5:40 PM
As the coronation ceremony unfolded, on Saturday morning, May 6, 2023, there were clear spikes and dips in traffic, each coinciding with key moments of the ceremony...
April 19, 2023 2:57 PM
How Easter (including Orthodox Easter), Passover & Ramadan affected 2023 Internet traffic...
April 12, 2023 1:00 PM
In this post, we review selected Internet disruptions observed by Cloudflare during the first quarter of 2023, supported by traffic graphs from Cloudflare Radar and other internal Cloudflare tools, and grouped by associated cause or common geography...
February 13, 2023 10:23 PM
We look at who the biggest winners were among Super Bowl advertisers, and examine traffic trends for food delivery services, social media, and sports and betting sites. We also review city and state-level traffic trends, as well as related email threat volume in the weeks ahead o...
