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Bots have officially overtaken humans on the internet. A new report from Human Security found automated traffic grew 8x faster than human activity in 2025, with AI agent traffic surging nearly 8,000%. The age of machine-dominated internet traffic is here, years earlier than many

Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025

Cloudflare experienced a significant traffic outage on December 5, 2025, starting approximately at 8:47 UTC. The incident lasted approximately 25 minutes before resolution. We are sorry for the impact that it caused to our customers and the Internet. The incident was not caused by an attack and was due to configuration changes being applied to attempt to mitigate a recent industry-wide vulnerability impacting React Server Components.

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New Fastly Threat Research Reveals AI crawlers make up almost 80% of AI bot traffic, Meta Leads AI Crawling As ChatGPT Dominates Real-Time Web Traffic | Fastly

SAN FRANCISCO – August 19, 2025 – Fastly, Inc. (NYSE: FSLY), a leader in global edge cloud platforms, today released its Q2 2025 Threat Insights Report, exposing a striking shift in the nature and scale of automated web traffic. Analysis of traffic from mid-April to mid-July shows that AI crawlers made up almost 80% of all AI bot traffic observed, with Meta generating more than half and eclipsing both Google and OpenAI combined.

Russian ISPs throttle Cloudflare traffic to 16KB

Russian Internet Service Providers implement traffic caps that disrupt digital marketing infrastructure across major web services.

Record DDoS pummels site with once-unimaginable 7.3Tbps of junk traffic

Attacker rained down the equivalent of 9,300 full-length HD movies in just 45 seconds.

Malaysia's internet traffic continues to surge as MyIX recorded 17% YoY increase in 2024 - SoyaCincau

MyIX has recorded a 17% Year-on-Year increase in internet traffic last year, reaching an all-time high of 2.6Tbps. A positive indicator for Malaysia's digital economy.