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Cloudflare recorded a sharp rise in distributed denial-of-service attacks during the first half of 2026, mitigating 935 attacks that exceeded 1 terabit per second in intensity, with an increase of 519% between the first and second quarters. The report points to a shift in focus from botnet floods to reflection and amplification attacks, particularly through DNS and CLDAP, with the landscape affected by geopolitical tensions.