Hackers use sophisticated tactics to overwhelm networks, both as tools of protests and as ruses to distract from serious crimes “It’s no longer hidden. It’s very, very public, it’s well known,” said ...

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 ...

Never heard of a DDoS attack? Small companies that do business online ought to learn about this growing online threat-- and figure out how they'll respond should one ever hit them. Consider what ...

Elon Musk's social media platform X (formerly Twitter) experienced a DDoS attack, causing delays before a scheduled conversation with former U.S. President Donald Trump. The incident highlighted the ...

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks certainly come to mind when considering cyberattacks that can cause widespread outages and service disruptions. These insidious attacks are on the rise, ...

As the internet has become more accessible over the years, bad actors around the world have found it easier to use it to commit crimes and harass others. That's unfortunate — as much as the internet ...

Distributed denial of service is a type of DoS attack where multiple compromised systems, which are often joined with a Trojan, are used to target a single system causing an attack. The DDoS attack ...

Over the Labor Day weekend, Cloudflare says it successfully stopped a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 11.5 terabits per second (Tbps). This came only a few ...

Krebs is thankfully back in business and has reported that “The source code that powers the “Internet of Things” (IoT) botnet responsible for launching the historically large distributed ...