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Bashar Bashaireh, AVP Middle East, T\u00fcrkiye & North Africa at Cloudflare<\/p>\nCloudflare unveiled its Q2 2025 Global Internet Trends and Insights, revealing key shifts in web traffic patterns, cyberthreat volumes and security trends across global and regional landscapes.<\/p>\n
Bashar Bashaireh, AVP Middle East, T\u00fcrkiye & North Africa at Cloudflare<\/p>\n
During Q2 2025, Cloudflare blocked an average of 190 billion cyberthreats every day worldwide, reflecting a 21% year-over-year (YoY) increase, even as threat volume dropped 23% quarter-over-quarter (QoQ) following a surge earlier this year. The company also handled an average of 5.8 trillion daily Internet requests globally, representing a 9% increase QoQ and a 40% jump YoY, highlighting the continued growth and scale of Internet usage.<\/p>\n
Global Regional Breakdown \u2013 Q2 2025:<\/p>\n
North America (NAMER):<\/p>\n
1.5 billion daily threats blocked<\/p>\n
\u00a0Up 18% YoY, down 12% QoQ<\/p>\n
Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA):<\/p>\n
62.7 billion daily threats blocked<\/p>\n
Up 22% YoY, down 16% QoQ<\/p>\n
Asia-Pacific (APAC):\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
57.4 billion daily threats blocked<\/p>\n
Up 24% YoY, down 29% QoQ\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Latin America (LATAM):<\/p>\n
\u00a019 billion daily threats blocked<\/p>\n
\u00a0Up 15% YoY, down 36% QoQ<\/p>\n
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) \u2013 Regional Internet trends snapshot: KSA experienced no significant change in overall Internet traffic compared to Q1 2025. However, mitigated traffic (cyberthreats) decreased by 6% QoQ, signalling a relative easing of targeted attacks in the region. Daily request traffic:<\/p>\n
42.6 billion content requests served daily<\/p>\n
543 million (1%) of those were blocked as cyberattacks, a 6% decrease QoQ<\/p>\n
Cyberthreats blocked daily:<\/p>\n
94 million cyberthreats blocked per day<\/p>\n
\u00a0Seventy-six percent decrease QoQ, following an 890% spike in Q1 2025 due to sustained attacks on a Middle East project management training firm<\/p>\n
Top targeted verticals in KSA:<\/p>\n
Internet<\/p>\n
Consumer Goods<\/p>\n
Information Technology and Services<\/p>\n
Airlines\/Aviation<\/p>\n
Primary defences against application layer attacks:<\/p>\n
Web Application Firewall (WAF) rules: 92%<\/p>\n
DDoS Mitigations: 8%<\/p>\n
Most active WAF rules:<\/p>\n
HTTP Anomaly (20%)<\/p>\n
Cross-site Scripting \u2013 XSS (10%)<\/p>\n
Directory Traversal (8%)<\/p>\n
United Arab Emirates (UAE) \u2013 Regional Internet trends snapshot The UAE witnessed a 15% increase in Internet traffic in Q2 2025 vs. Q1. In parallel, mitigated traffic rose 17% QoQ, reflecting intensified threat activity.<\/p>\n
Daily request traffic:<\/p>\n
17.4 billion content requests served daily<\/p>\n
787 million (5%) blocked as cyberthreats, primarily DDoS attacks originating in the UAE, a 17% increase QoQ<\/p>\n
Cyberthreats blocked daily:<\/p>\n
1 billion cyberthreats blocked per day<\/p>\n
\u00a0Sixty-three percent increase QoQ<\/p>\n
Top targeted verticals in UAE:<\/p>\n
Retail<\/p>\n
Consumer Services<\/p>\n
Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI)<\/p>\n
Information Services<\/p>\n
Primary defences against application layer attacks:<\/p>\n
DDoS Mitigations: 50%<\/p>\n
WAF Rules: 49%<\/p>\n
Most active WAF rule categories:<\/p>\n
HTTP Anomaly (16%)<\/p>\n
SQL Injection \u2013 SQLi (9%)<\/p>\n
Cross-site Scripting \u2013 XSS (6%)<\/p>\n
\u201cCloudflare\u2019s Q2 data reinforces the dual reality of the Internet today, while usage is accelerating at unprecedented rates, so are the sophistication and frequency of cyberthreats,\u201d said Bashar Bashaireh, AVP Middle East, T\u00fcrkiye and North Africa, Cloudflare. \u201cOur mission remains focused on enabling a secure, fast and reliable Internet experience for every user, everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cloudflare unveiled its Q2 2025 Global Internet Trends and Insights, revealing key shifts in web traffic patterns, cyberthreat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[64,63,237,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-27294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-internet","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}