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?

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the FBI, and the multistate information sharing, and analysis center (MS-ISAC) have, in a joint effort, released an advisory to defend ...

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 ...

The US government has published new distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack guidance for public sector entities to help prevent disruption to critical services. The document is designed to serve ...

A huge network of more than 3 million devices has been disrupted in an operation targeting DDoS botnets.