{"id":242572,"date":"2026-08-12T05:15:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T10:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/ddos-attacks-over-1-tbps-surged-fivefold-in-the-second-quarter"},"modified":"2026-08-12T05:15:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T10:15:06","slug":"ddos-attacks-over-1-tbps-surged-fivefold-in-the-second-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/ddos-attacks-over-1-tbps-surged-fivefold-in-the-second-quarter","title":{"rendered":"DDoS attacks over 1 Tbps surged fivefold in the second quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ddos-attacks-over-1-tbps-surged-fivefold-in-the-second-quarter.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cloudflare says it mitigated more than 800 network-layer distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks exceeding 1 Tbps in the second quarter of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Compared with the first quarter, when the company recorded just 130 attacks above 1 Tbps, the latest figure represents a more than fivefold increase.<\/p>\n<p>Cloudflare is a major web infrastructure and security firm that provides CDN, DNS, reverse-proxy, and DDoS protection services to customers worldwide, protecting roughly 20% of the web.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloudflare says it mitigated more than 800 network-layer distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks exceeding 1 Tbps in the second quarter of the year. Compared with the first quarter, when the company recorded just 130 attacks above 1 Tbps, the latest figure represents a more than fivefold increase. Cloudflare is a major web infrastructure and security firm [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}