DDoS threat report for 2024 Q1

Cloudflare's Q1 2024 DDoS threat report documents a sharp increase in DDoS activity — 4.5 million attacks mitigated (50% YoY), massive network-layer volumes including weekly >1 Tbps events and a 2 Tbps Mirai-variant attack — with DNS-based attacks rising 80% YoY. The report highlights prominent attack vectors (HTTP, L3/4, SYN/RST/UDP floods), emerging vectors such as Jenkins Flood, and a newly disclosed HTTP/2 Continuation Flood vulnerability (multiple CVEs) while noting Cloudflare customers are not affected; it also covers targeted industries and geographic sources of attacks and Cloudflare’s mitigation posture including Advanced DNS Protection.