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 ...

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 ...

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?

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 ...

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Zayo Group, a leading global communications infrastructure provider, today released its biannual Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Insights Report, revealing a nearly 82% ...

WESTFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NETSCOUT ® SYSTEMS, INC. (NASDAQ: NTCT), today released its second half of the year 2025 Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Threat Intelligence Report, revealing ...

KrebsOnSecurity last week was hit by a near record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that clocked in at more than 6.3 terabits of data per second (a terabit is one trillion bits of data).

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 ...

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks come in many shapes and sizes, as do the myths surrounding them. These myths can center on motivations, DDoS attack vectors and techniques, mitigation ...

Network-layer DDoS attacks, targeting layer 3 and 4 of the OSI model, increased 168.2% year over year, with peak attack volumes reaching almost 30 Tbps, signaling a resurgence of brute-force ...

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 ...

A DDoS attack overwhelms a target server or network by flooding it with massive traffic from multiple compromised systems, making legitimate access nearly impossible. These network security threats ...