Cloudflare’s 2024 DDoS attack statistics reveal a staggering increase in attacks, with 21.3 million incidents recorded, showing a 358% year-over-year rise. In 2025’s first quarter alone, 20.5 million attacks occurred, with a significant number targeting gaming servers. The frequency and scale of hypervolumetric attacks have risen sharply, highlighting the growing threat landscape. Affected: Gaming servers, Cloudflare infrastructure
Keypoints :
- Cloudflare faced 21.3 million DDoS attacks in 2024, a 358% increase from the previous year.
- Q1 2025 recorded 20.5 million attacks, with 16.8 million classified as network layer attacks.
- A significant multi-vector attack campaign targeted Cloudflare’s infrastructure, involving SYN floods, Mirai-based botnets, and SSDP amplification.
- Over 700 hypervolumetric attacks were noted in Q1 2025, each exceeding 1 terabit per second.
- A US-based gaming hosting provider experienced a DDoS attack peaking at 1.5 billion packets per second.
- Cloudflare’s CEO announced mitigation of a record 5.8 terabits per second DDoS attack.
- The rise in DDoS attacks comes as ransomware threats have diminished.
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- Youtube Published: Sat, 03 May 2025 16:01:24 +0000