Cloudflare DDoS Threat Report H1 2026: 1 Tbps attacks soar as DNS floods and geopolitical tensions drive a new wave

Cloudflare's H1 2026 DDoS Threat Report details a large surge in distributed denial-of-service activity—including hundreds of hyper‑volumetric (>1 Tbps) mitigations—driven by a shift from botnet floods to DNS reflection/amplification and a dramatic rise in CLDAP attacks; it describes affected industries and geographies (Media, China, U.S., Turkey), quantifies scale (millions of network‑layer attacks and trillions of HTTP requests), and stresses the need for automated, always‑on defenses alongside industry takedown collaboration.