The DDoS attack against Mastodon's flagship server comes less than a week after Bluesky was targeted with junk web traffic.
That said, last week a number of different countries collaborated in a Europol-supported effort designed to take criminal ...
Spread the loveIn a significant international law enforcement operation dubbed Operation PowerOFF, authorities have successfully seized 53 domains associated with DDoS-for-hire services, disrupting a ...
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks continue to grow, with the number of incidents doubling year-on-year (YoY), says new research. According to StormWall’s DDoS Attacks Report, DDoS attacks ...
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 ...
Today, it's rare for a month to pass without reports of new distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks driven by geopolitical instability. Now, a single attack can include numerous countries and ...
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 ...
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have disrupted state websites, digital court services and more this year. Now, federal agencies are calling all levels of government to heed the threat and ...
AI Adoption, coordinated botnets, and persistent hacktivists groups drove millions of attacks NETSCOUT® SYSTEMS, INC. (NASDAQ: NTCT), today released its second half of the year 2025 Distributed Denial ...
As everyone in the security space knows, misplaced confidence can often be much worse than a known weakness. When you have an accurate idea of where your vulnerabilities are, at least you can focus ...
Cybercriminals are focusing on high-impact attack types that damage the reputation of institutions and make life as difficult ...
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