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 ...

Cloudflare claims to have prevented record-breaking Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Last week, the internet architecture provider claimed to have blocked “hundreds” of hyper-volumetric ...

Separate spinoffs of the infamous Mirai botnet are responsible for a fresh wave of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks globally. One is exploiting specific vulnerabilities in Internet of ...

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 ...

Warnings from security experts increase after reports of a 26 percent rise in cyberattacks in quarter three of 2024, highlighting a rising cybersecurity crisis, as businesses brace for even more of ...

Internet services giant Cloudflare says it mitigated a record number of DDoS attacks in 2024, recording a massive 358% year-over-year jump and a 198% quarter-over-quarter increase. These figures come ...

Denial-of-service attacks overwhelm networked systems with massive traffic from compromised devices, disrupting communication and making critical services like PV system monitoring and control ...

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 ...

Ransomware, phishing, and DDoS attacks are disrupting fleets, exposing vulnerabilities in digital freight operations and supply chains.

Attackers use DDoS attacks to disrupt and extort companies, or cause reputational and financial damage. (Image generated by ChatGPT) South Africa-based web hosting platform 1-Grid has been hit by a ...