Cloudflare DDoS Threat Report H1 2026: 1 Tbps attacks soar as DNS floods and geopolitical tensions drive a new wave

Cloudflare, a security, performance and reliability company helping to build a better Internet, has announced its DDoS Threat Report H1 2026 . This report offers a comprehensive analysis of the evolving threat landscape of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks based on data from the Cloudflare network, which is one of the largest in the world. Cloudflare mitigated 5,343 network-layer DDoS attacks every hour in H1 2026 and the data shows a threat landscape increasingly shaped by geopolitic