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 ...

Cloudflare reports halting record DDoS attack peaking at 22.2Tbps and 10.6Bpps The attack lasted only 40 seconds, yet equaled streaming one million 4K videos Image shows automated detection of world ...

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?

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 ...

Cloudflare surveyed customers about DDoS attacks, and 29% claimed to have identified the sources of those attacks. Of those who identified the attackers, 63% pointed to competitors, the largest of ...

The top five targeted countries in EMEA were: Germany, France, Poland, Russia and Saudi Arabia The conflicts between Iran-Israel and India-Pakistan extended into the cyberspace. The former generated ...

Surge in hypervolumetric attacks targeting gaming and cloud providers accompanies global rise of AI-driven botnets STOCKHOLM, July 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Arelion today announced the findings of its ...

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 ...

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are nothing new. But recent data suggests we’ve entered a new phase – one where attacks are becoming larger, faster, more disruptive, and harder to defend ...

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 ...