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 ...

As botnets grow larger and attackers become more opportunistic, organizations can no longer treat DDoS resilience as a ...

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?

DDoS attacks that wiped several South African hosting and network infrastructure providers off the Internet appear to have stopped — for now.

In May 2026, federal prosecutors in Alaska unsealed charges against an Oregon man accused of running a DDoS-for-hire botnet ...

A group of hacktivists have claimed responsibility for a distributed denial-of-service attack, which has affected several Ubuntu and Canonical websites, and prevented users from updating the ...

Submarine cable operator Seacom said it was hit by a high-volume distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Tuesday.

Hackers now use AI and botnets to launch powerful DDoS attacks, bypassing security and overwhelming servers as law enforcement struggles to keep up. Cyberattacks aren’t just about stealing data ...

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 ...

Most DDoS test reports get treated like a security scan. A list of attack vectors, each one tagged as blocked or not blocked, and a verdict that reads like a grade. Pass means safe. Fail means fix it.

Spread the love“`html The recent IoT botnet takedown in Canada has unveiled a troubling reality: the Internet of Things (IoT)—once considered a marvel of modern technology—has birthed a dangerous ...

Canadian cybersecurity startup stops multi-vector attack during live training event with zero service disruption We had ...