Security News > 2024 > July > Cloudflare Reports that Almost 7% of All Internet Traffic Is Malicious
2024-07-17 16:03
Distributed Denial of Service attacks continue to be cybercriminals' weapon of choice, making up over 37% of all mitigated traffic.
In the first quarter of 2024 alone, Cloudflare blocked 4.5 million unique DDoS attacks.
It's not just about the sheer volume of DDoS attacks.
Last August, Cloudflare mitigated a massive HTTP/2 Rapid Reset DDoS attack that peaked at 201 million requests per second.
It wasn't just Cloudflare that was hit by the largest DDoS attack in its history.
Google Cloud reported the same attack peaked at an astonishing 398 million RPS. So, how big is that number? According to Google, Google Cloud was slammed by more RPS in two minutes than Wikipedia saw traffic during September 2023.