DDoS attacks hit record scale as 1 Tbps+ campaigns become more common

DDoS attacks grew in scale during the first half of 2026, bringing larger traffic floods, shorter attack durations, and increasingly automated campaigns. Cloudflare’s H1 2026 DDoS Threat Report shows threat actors relying on multi-vector techniques and large-scale network-layer attacks to disrupt online services across multiple industries. L3/4 attack-size distribution (bitrate), H1 2026 (Source: Cloudflare) Network-layer attacks remained a primary driver of activity as hyper-volumetric campaigns capable of generating traffic measured in terabits per second became … appeared first on Help Net Security.