Cloudflare mitigates large numbers of DDOS attacks, expects to be larger in scope

Cloudflare provides services to web sites that takes the damage of DDOS attacks among other things.

There could possibly be a trivia question on this, but I don’t know. Lots of things could be asked. Its all a learning curve, right?

The article starts out:

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.

This is very interesting how its broken down. That paragraph says:

“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.

It continues:

Meanwhile, the trend of hyper-volumetric attacks continued unabated, with Cloudflare recording over 700 attacks that surpassed bandwidths of 1 Tbps (terabit per second) or packet rates of 1 billion packets per second.

The hyper-volumetric attacks that fall into these categories averaged eight daily during the year’s first quarter, and the total count doubled compared to the previous quarter.

Besides UDP being light weight as well as CLDAP, these are only two different types of attacks.

Then it says:

ESP attacks, which have grown 2,301% quarter-over-quarter, are possible thanks to misconfigurations or vulnerabilities in exposed systems.

If you thought the 1.5TBPS was bad enough, this is more shocking.

The company’s CEO, Matthew Prince, announced on X late last week that they have mitigated a record-breaking distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack peaking at 5.8 Tbps, which lasted for approximately 45 seconds.

Instead of me breaking down the rest of this, I urge all of us to read this as this could affect us just doing every day web browsing at times.

Cloudflare mitigates record number of DDoS attacks in 2025 is the article.

This may not surprise me if Steve and the gang cover this one.

This … is absolutely crazy.