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Cloudflare reports 18.2 million network-layer DDoS attacks in Q3, up 38%

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Internet security company says it blocked about 18.2 million attacks in the third quarter of 2026 that tried to overwhelm networks with traffic. That is roughly 197,400 attacks a day, and the company also counted 14.4 trillion web-based attack requests.

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