Akamai’s 2026 State of the Internet report shows a surge in Layer 7 DDoS and API attacks, with attacakers combining AI, botnets and web exploits into coordinated multi-vector campaigns.

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 ...

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 ...

DoJ disrupts IoT botnets behind 31.4 Tbps DDoS attacks using 3M devices, reducing global extortion-driven outages.

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?

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...