Cloudflare Reports Sixfold Surge in 1 Tbps DDoS Attacks in Q2 2026

Distributed denial-of-service attacks exceeding 1 terabit per second surged more than sixfold in the second quarter of 2026, according to a new report from internet security firm Cloudflare, which documented a sharp rise in both the volume and scale of these digital assaults. The company’s analysis, released on August 11, 2026, found that it mitigated 805 network-layer attacks above the 1 Tbps threshold in the second quarter, up from 130 in the first quarter. This brought the total for the first half of the year to 935 such attacks, marking a significant escalation in the upper end of DDoS capabilities.

The report, the 25th edition of Cloudflare’s DDoS Threat Report, covers the period from January through June 2026. It indicates that the overall frequency of attacks also increased, with the company mitigating 13.17 million network-layer DDoS attacks in the second quarter, compared to 10.04 million in the first. Malicious HTTP traffic reached 16.89 trillion requests in the second quarter, a 32.4% increase. Despite the growth in massive attacks, the majority of incidents remained relatively small and brief, with 96.62% of network-layer attacks transmitting less than 50 Mbps and...