Internet disruptions overview for Q1 2022

During the first quarter of 2022, various internet disruptions were observed by Cloudflare. These included outages caused by natural events such as a volcanic eruption in Tonga and an earthquake off the coast of Japan. Infrastructure damage also led to several disruptions, including incidents in Gambia, Yemen, Tasmania, Iran, Cuba, and Venezuela. Power outages affected internet connectivity in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Taiwan, and Cuba. A DDoS attack targeted AS8867 (E-Gov - Tehila Project) in Israel on March 14. In some cases, the underlying technical or physical causes of internet disruptions were not specified. The Russian invasion of Ukraine led to several significant disruptions observed on major Ukrainian network providers in March. Despite these incidents, the internet remains remarkably resilient.