In the third quarter of 2026, Cloudflare successfully mitigated 18.2 million network-layer distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. This increase indicates a trend among attackers who now favor short, frequent disruptions over large traffic floods. Compared to the same quarter in 2025, this represents a significant 208% rise in the frequency of attacks across Cloudflare’s network. Published […]

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Multiple waves of DDoS attacks disrupted North Korea’s internet infrastructure this week, intermittently knocking over 40 official websites offline for about 32 hours. Network monitoring company Kentik linked the outages to synchronized surges of inbound traffic that began on October 20, 2026. Doug Madory, Kentik’s director of internet analysis, noted that aggregate traffic data showed […]

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Cisco Talos found hackers using simple authorization claims to bypass AI guardrails, build DDoS attack tools, steal credentials and access live camera services.