This document discusses recent DDoS attacks in South Africa and Cloudflare's response. It provides details on: - A major DDoS attack on November 19th that targeted gambling sites and news agencies with over 1 billion requests, peaking at 185,000 requests per second from over 18,000 IPs. - Cloudflare saw a total of 2.676 billion security events in South Africa during this time, with 69% of traffic during the November 19th attack. - Cloudflare used tools like firewall rules, rate-limiting, and its Gatebot and Security Level features to automatically mitigate attacks globally while continuing to serve local South African users. - Additional DDoS attacks on