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

October 31, 2026 · 4:56 am 1 sources

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• Cloudflare Reports 18.2 Million Network-Layer DDoS Attacks in Q3, Up 38%
  The Hacker News · October 31, 2026 04:56
  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…