Cloudflare DDoS threat report 2022 Q3

The third quarter of 2022 saw a significant increase in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks compared to last year. Multi-terabit strong DDoS attacks have become more frequent, with Cloudflare automatically detecting and mitigating multiple attacks exceeding 1 Tbps. The largest attack was a 2.5 Tbps DDoS attack launched by a Mirai botnet variant targeting the Minecraft server Wynncraft. Overall, there has been an increase in application-layer DDoS attacks, with HTTP DDoS attacks increasing by 111% year-over-year (YoY) and decreasing by 10% quarter-over-quarter (QoQ). Additionally, network-layer DDoS attacks increased by 97% YoY and 24% QoQ. The gaming/gambling industry was the most targeted by L3/4 DDoS attacks, including a massive 2.5 Tbps attack. Ransom DDoS attacks also saw an increase of 67% YoY and 15% QoQ.