Cloudflare’s Q3 Surge: 18.2 Million Network-Layer DDoS Attacks and Changing Threat Patterns
Threat actors ramped up automated disruption in the third quarter of 2026, with Cloudflare reporting a dramatic rise in the frequency and variety of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The company mitigated 18.2 million network-layer (L3) DDoS attacks and handled 14.4 trillion HTTP DDoS requests during the quarter — a scale that underscores how persistent and rapidly evolving DDoS activity has become. Quarterly volume and pace Cloudflare’s numbers translate to roughly…