According to new data released by Netscout, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are on the rise. There were 17 million such attacks in 2024 – up from 13 million the year before. It’s an ...

On March 10, X experienced multiple outages, with tens of thousands of users reporting the social site was down for them. Later that day, after multiple failures, X came back online. What caused this?

DoJ disrupts IoT botnets behind 31.4 Tbps DDoS attacks using 3M devices, reducing global extortion-driven outages.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate O’Flaherty is a cybersecurity and privacy journalist. Cloudflare has mitigated the biggest distributed denial of service ...

Dark Storm claims responsibility for X DDoS attack. Update, March 12, 2025: This story, originally published March 11, has been updated with additional insight from multiple security experts regarding ...

The largest ever DDoS attack on record, reaching 7.3 Terabits per second (Tbps), was blocked by Cloudflare in Q2 2025. This eclipses the previous largest DDoS attack observed, which Cloudflare ...

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks come in many shapes and sizes, as do the myths surrounding them. These myths can center on motivations, DDoS attack vectors and techniques, mitigation ...

The biggest, baddest DDoS attack to date was just fended off. The attack used the trivial, but nasty, UDP flood attack. You must protect yourself against DDoS attacks. Over the Labor Day weekend, ...

A huge network of more than 3 million devices has been disrupted in an operation targeting DDoS botnets.

Zayo Group, a communications infrastructure provider, has released its biannual Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Insights Report, revealing a nearly 82 per cent surge in attack frequency between ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fastly, Inc. (NYSE: FSLY), a leader in global edge cloud platforms, has announced key updates to Fastly DDoS Protection that deliver unprecedented visibility into ...