Cloudflare measures the collapse of giant DDoS attacks in favor of swarms of small ones
On October 29, 2026, Cloudflare published its Q3 DDoS report: attacks under 10 minutes and under 1 Gbps surged 208%, while attacks above 1 Tbps fell 69%. For operators, the defense changes nature — it is no longer about surviving one massive siege, but about absorbing thousands of short, cheap bursts automatically.