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 ...

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Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are getting progressively more complex, with software-defined and cloud-driven infrastructures becoming tantalizing targets for threat actors relying on ...

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 ...

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?

Solana withstood a historic 6 Tbps DDoS attack without downtime, demonstrating resilience comparable to Tier-1 internet infrastructure. Layered defenses, QUIC, stake-weighted QoS, and local fee ...

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 ...

Cloudflare has mitigated a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at a record-breaking 22.2 terabits per second (Tbps) and 10.6 billion packets per second (Bpps). DDoS attacks ...

Distributed denial-of-service attacks are “more powerful than ever,” with AI helping automate tasks and bypass CAPTCHA systems, according to Netscout researchers. Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Although first hitting the cybersecurity threat intelligence ...

Is it a day ending in 'y'? Well then that makes it just about time for Cloudflare to announce it's mitigated yet another record-breaking DDoS attack—this time to the tune of 11.5 Tbps (that's terabits ...