In all, a total of 149 hacktivist DDoS claims were recorded targeting 110 distinct organizations across 16 countries. The ...

Netscout research reports over 8 million DDoS attacks worldwide in H2 2025, with growing botnet activity, multi-vector attacks and rising use of AI in cyber threats.

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 ...

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?

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Monday Elon Musk conducted a much-anticipated interview with former President Donald Trump on X (formerly Twitter), a platform the billionaire CEO of Tesla bought in 2022. But the conversation ...

Microsoft has announced that it prevented the largest-ever cloud DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack on its Azure cloud services, which occurred in October. In a report, the software giant ...

Threat groups are constantly getting more sophisticated in their attempts to evade detection and enact harm. One common tactic that many security practitioners have witnessed is carrying out ...

After hundreds of media outlets worldwide repeated the false claim that a botnet of three million toothbrushes attacked a Swiss company, the cybersecurity firm at the centre of the story has now ...

Built for ease-of-use and scale, Fastly DDoS Protection automatically blocks malicious traffic to keep applications and APIs available and performant Modern DDoS attacks can bring even the ...