- In the 1st quarter of 2025 there were 20.5 million DDOS -attack
- Throughout 2024 there were 21.3 million
- Hyper-Volumetric DDOS attacks are growing more popular
In the first quarter of 2025, there were as many distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks as there were throughout 2024.
This is, according to CloudFlore’s new Q1 2025 DDOS threat report, published earlier this week. Based on data from the Cloudflare network, the report claims that in the first three months of 2025 there were 20.5 million DDOS attacks, almost the same as in all 12 months of 2024, which had 21.3 million such events.
This also represents a fantastic increase of 358% year for the year as well as an increase of 198% quarter to quarter.
Targeting of Germany
A distributed denial of service attacks works by flooding the target server with information packages from a huge, distributed network. If the server is unable to process all the requests on time, it pulls down and refuses regular visitors correct access. There are different types of DDOS attacks where hyper-volumetric is now “the new normal.”
A hyper-volumetric DDOS attack is a massive cyberattack that floods a network or site with an extremely large amount of false traffic, often measured in terabits per day. Second. These require a huge network of devices, which is why they were not so common in the past. In Q1, approx. However, 700 attacks considered hyper -volumetric as they exceeded the rates of 1 billion packages per day. Second (pps) or 1Tbps – on average approx. 8 attacks a day.
At the same time, the Network Bag’s DDOS attack (which targets the lower levels of the Internet stacks, such as routers and firewalls, is by flooding them with traffic such as ICMP or UDP packages) more popular. There were 16.8 million such attacks representing a staggering increase of 509% yoy and an increase of 397% quarter over the quarter.
Germany is the most targeted country in the world, followed by Turkey, who jumped 11 spots to reach second place. China slipped to third. As for the striker’s location, Hong Kong is the largest source, followed by Indonesia and Argentina.
