Summary: Cloudflare reported a staggering increase in DDoS attacks in 2024, with a 358% rise year-over-year and a 198% increase quarter-over-quarter, totaling 21.3 million mitigated attacks. The first quarter of 2025 is already showing concerning trends, with Cloudflare tackling 20.5 million attacks, including a record-breaking 5.8 Tbps DDoS attack. Emerging threats such as CLDAP and ESP amplification attacks are contributing significantly to this surge in cyber threats.
Affected: Cloudflare and online entities
Keypoints :
- Cloudflare recorded 21.3 million DDoS attacks in 2024, indicating a massive surge in cyber threats.
- First quarter of 2025 alone saw 20.5 million attacks, including 6.6 million directly targeting Cloudflare’s infrastructure.
- New DDoS threats like CLDAP and ESP amplification attacks grew significantly, with CLDAP attacks increasing by 3,488% quarter-over-quarter.
- A notable gaming server attack reached 1.5 billion packets per second but was successfully mitigated by Cloudflare.
- Cloudflare mitigated an unprecedented DDoS attack peaking at 5.8 Tbps, hinting at even larger attacks to come.