Cloudflare Report Shows Massive Spike in High-Volume DDoS Attacks: Here Is What the Data Shows

Cloudflare observed a substantial rise in network-layer DDoS activity in Q2 2026—13.17 million attacks overall and 805 events exceeding 1 Tbps—highlighting a surge in large-scale attacks (including a previously observed 31.4 Tbps event attributed to the Aisuru/Kimwolf botnet), the role of compromised devices in building botnets, and the need for upstream filtering and scrubbing; the report also flags growing Gunra ransomware activity.