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 ...

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 ...

The Cardano (ADA-USD) blockchain successfully thwarted a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack aimed at stealing staked tokens. The attack, which occurred late Tuesday, involved flooding the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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?

A new report from content delivery network provider Cloudflare Inc. today details a disturbing rise in distributed denial-of-service attacks in the first quarter, including a surge of attacks against ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here are a few headlines from the last 24 hours or so, about a supposed smart toothbrush botnet launching a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack: The reports were inspired by a report last week ...

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 ...