According to The Hacker News, Cloudflare disclosed Thursday that it experienced a substantial rise in network‑layer distributed denial‑of‑service (DDoS) activity during the third quarter of 2026. Threat actors are launching roughly 8,226 network‑layer DDoS attacks each hour, according to the company’s latest report.
In that period Cloudflare autonomously mitigated 18.2 million network‑layer (L3) DDoS attacks and also handled 14.4 trillion HTTP DDoS requests. The mitigation corresponds to an average of about 197,400 attacks per day, which equates to roughly one attack occurring every 0.44 days.
