Cloudflare Sees Massive Rise In Attacks Targeting Media, Nonprofits And Human Rights Groups
Cloudflare, Thursday, June 12th, 2025
A new repor from Cloudflare Inc., marking the 11th anniversary of Project Galileo, reveals a sharp increase in cyberattacks targeting civil society organizations, with application-layer distributed denial-of-service attacks overtaking traditional web exploit attempts by a wide margin.
roject Galileo is a Cloudflare program that offers free cybersecurity protection to at-risk public interest organizations, such as independent media, human rights groups and nonprofits. The program, launched in 2014, helps safeguard vulnerable groups from cyberattacks such as DDoS and web exploits, enabling them to stay online and continue their critical work.