Frequent downtime from DDoS attacks and bot abuse

9/10 Critical

Organizations experience significant downtime from DDoS attacks, bot abuse, and credential-stuffing attempts, causing lost revenue and customer churn, particularly during peak business events.

DDoS protectionWAF
Category
security
Workaround
none
Freshness
persistent
Scope
cross_platform
Recurring
Yes
Buyer Type
enterprise

Sources

Collection History

Query: “What are the most common pain points with DNS for developers in 2025?”4/9/2026

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks overwhelm DNS servers with a massive volume of requests, causing them to become unresponsive and disrupting access to websites and online services. These attacks are particularly effective because DNS servers are critical for internet functionality and statistics from 2023 show that the number of DDoS attacks will double from 7.9 million to 15.4 million.

Query: “What are the most common pain points with Cloudflare for developers in 2025?”4/8/2026

Interviewees' organizations experienced outages from DDoS attacks, bot abuse, and credential-stuffing attempts. Interviewees from retail and gaming firms said that downtime during peak events like Black Friday or major sports games caused lost revenue and customer churn.

Created: 4/8/2026Updated: 4/9/2026