Cloudflare mitigates 18.2M DDoS attacks Q3 2026

Cloudflare reported a 38% increase in network-layer DDoS attacks during Q3 2026, with threat actors launching approximately 8,226 attacks per hour. The company autonomously mitigated 18.2 million L3 attacks and 14.4 trillion HTTP DDoS requests. While DDoS volumes are rising, defenders using Cloudflare's mitigation services are protected against these volumetric attacks.