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In 2024 Q3, Cloudflare started seeing a rise in hyper-volumetric network layer DDoS attacks. In 2024 Q4, the amount of ...

Of the DDoS attacks detected and stopped in Q4 2024, 49% were Layer 3 and Layer 4 DDoS attacks and 51% were HTTP DDoS attacks. 72.6% of HTTP DDoS attacks were launched by known botnets ...

DDoS attackers launched a campaign targeting Australian websites. It’s not out of the ordinary for Australian sites to be on the receiving end of DDoS attacks. However, this event was unusual, ...

A hyper-volumetric L3/4 DDoS attack is a type of DDoS attack targeting layers 3 (network) and 4 (transport) of the OSI model (framework that standardizes network communication). It overwhelms the ...

Although it only lasted 80 seconds, the attack is illustrative of a growing trend for hyper-volumetric Layer3/Layer4 DDoS attacks in recent months. “In 2024 Q3, we started seeing a rise in ...

The number also represented an 83% year-over-year (YoY) increase. “Of the 2024 Q4 DDoS attacks, 49% (3.4 million) were Layer 3/Layer 4 DDoS attacks and 51% (3.5 million) were HTTP DDoS attacks ...