Cloudflare DDoS Threat Report 2026 Q3: More swarms, fewer giants
Source: Cloudflare Security
At a glance
Welcome to the 26th edition of Cloudflare's DDoS Threat Report. This edition covers the third quarter of 2026 — July, August, and September — and returns the series to its quarterly cadence following the combined H1 2026 volume. The analysis is produced by Cloudforce One , Cloudflare's Threat Intelligence organization, providing a comprehensive analysis of the evolving threat landscape of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks based on data from the Cloudflare network . Key insights Short-burst, low-bandwidth attacks lasting under 10 minutes and 1 Gbps surged by 208%. Converse…