The upper end of DDoS attacks is getting much bigger — and attacks that once looked exceptional are showing up far more often.
Cloudflare says it mitigated 805 network-layer distributed denial-of-service attacks exceeding 1 Tbps in Q2 2026, up from 130 in the previous quarter. The company also reported 13.17 million network-layer DDoS attacks overall, compared with 10.04 million in Q1.
Most attacks remain much smaller, but the sharp rise in high-bandwidth events matters because organizations increasingly need defenses capable of filtering extreme traffic volumes before they overwhelm internet links or backend infrastructure.
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