In April 2026, Europol announced the results of its latest strike against the booming DDoS-for-hire industry: four arrests, ...

As botnets grow larger and attackers become more opportunistic, organizations can no longer treat DDoS resilience as a ...

A group of hacktivists have claimed responsibility for a distributed denial-of-service attack, which has affected several Ubuntu and Canonical websites, and prevented users from updating the ...

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 ...

Separate spinoffs of the infamous Mirai botnet are responsible for a fresh wave of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks globally. One is exploiting specific vulnerabilities in Internet of ...

Cloudflare claims to have prevented record-breaking Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Last week, the internet architecture provider claimed to have blocked “hundreds” of hyper-volumetric ...

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 ...

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 ...

DDoS-for-hire boom blamed for attacks on SA’s ISPs By Admire Moyo, ITWeb news editorJohannesburg, 20 May 2026The goal of a DDoS attack is to flood a website, server, or online service with massive ...

Warnings from security experts increase after reports of a 26 percent rise in cyberattacks in quarter three of 2024, highlighting a rising cybersecurity crisis, as businesses brace for even more of ...