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Cloudflare Reports 18.2 Million Network-Layer DDoS Attacks in Q3, Up 38%

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Published by the source: Sat, 31 Oct 2026 10:26:12 +0530

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Threat actors are launching about 8,226 network-layer distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks per hour, Cloudflare revealed Thursday. The web infrastructure and security company said it autonomously mitigated 18.2 million network-layer (L3) DDoS attacks and 14.4 trillion HTTP DDoS requests in the third quarter of 2026. That amounts to 197,400 attacks per day, or one attack every 0.44

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