Cloudflare mitigates record number of DDoS attacks in 2025

Internet services giant Cloudflare says it mitigated a record number of DDoS attacks in 2024, recording a massive 358% year-over-year jump and a 198% quarter-over-quarter increase. These figures come from Cloudflare's 2025 Q1 DDoS Report, where the company says it mitigated a total of 21.3 million DDoS attacks in 2024. However, 2025 is looking to be an even bigger problem for online entities and companies, with Cloudflare already responding to 20.5 million DDoS attacks in just the first quarter of 2025. These attacks include Cloudflare itself, whose infrastructure was targeted directly in 6.6 million attacks over an 18-day multi-vector campaign. Attacks directed at Cloudflare's network Source: Cloudflare "Of the 20.5 million DDoS attacks, 16.8M were network-layer DDoS attacks, and of those 6.6M targeted Cloudflare's network infrastructure directly," explains Cloudflare. "These attacks were part of an 18 day multi-vector DDoS campaign comprising SYN flood attacks, Mirai-generated ... Read full article.