- In T1 2025, there have been 20.5 million DDOS attacks
- Overall in 2024, there were 21.3 million
- Hyper-Volumetric DDOS attacks are increasingly popular
In the first quarter of 2025, there were as many distributed denial attacks (DDOS) as throughout 2024.
This is in accordance with the new DDOS threat report from Cloudflare, published earlier this week. Based on Cloudflare Network, the report says that during the first three months of 2025, there were 20.5 million DDOS attacks, almost the same as in the 12 months of 2024 which counted 21.3 million incidents of this type.
This also represents an astonishing increase of 358% in annual sliding, as well as an increase of 198% of a quarter on a quarter.
Targeting Germany
A distributed denial of service works by flooding the target server with information packages from a large distributed network. If the server cannot process all requests in time, it is malaid, refusing regular regular access. There are different types of DDOS attacks, with hyper volumetric attacks being “the new standard”.
A hyper-volumetric ddos attack is a massive cyber attack that floods a network or a website with an extremely large volume of false traffic, often measured in terabits per second. These require a huge network of devices, which is why in the past, they were not as common. However, in the first quarter, around 700 attacks were deemed hyper -volumetric because they exceeded the rates of 1 billion packages per second (PPS) or 1 TBPS – on average about 8 attacks per day.
At the same time, DDOS attacks of network layer (which target the lower levels of the Internet battery, such as routers and firewalls, by flooding them with traffic such as ICMP or UDP packets) become more popular. There were 16.8 million attacks of this type, which represents an astonishing increase of 509% in annual sliding and an increase of 397% of a quarter.
Germany is the first most targeted country in the world, followed by Turkey, which jumped 11 places to reach second place. China has slipped into third row. As for the location of the attackers, Hong Kong is the number one source, followed by Indonesia and Argentina.
