Anonymous is building a bigger, more vicious weapon to replace its current DDoS tool. The new attack program, called #RefRef, is being developed in time for the Blackhat conference in Las Vegas and ...

Myths have no place in protecting your network’s most important digital assets. Don’t fall victim to these common myths.

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 ...

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?

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 ...

You know there’s a risk of DDoS attacks targeting your organization. You know you have appropriate protection technology in place. But do you know if there are any holes in your defense that can be ...

An upswing in hacktivist activity is behind the big rise in attacks aiming to saturate and overwhelm the resources of governments, utilities, and financial services, a report from Netscout reveals.

Cloudflare announced today that it blocked a record-setting distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, which bombarded its target with 11.5 Tbps of traffic for approximately 35 seconds.

The biggest, baddest DDoS attack to date was just fended off. The attack used the trivial, but nasty, UDP flood attack. You must protect yourself against DDoS attacks. Over the Labor Day weekend, ...

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 ...

A DDoS mitigation service provider in Europe was targeted in a massive distributed denial-of-service attack that reached 1.5 billion packets per second. The attack originated from thousands of IoTs ...