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.

On Monday Elon Musk conducted a much-anticipated interview with former President Donald Trump on X (formerly Twitter), a platform the billionaire CEO of Tesla bought in 2022. But the conversation ...

Azure was hit by the "largest-ever" cloud-based distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, originating from the Aisuru botnet and measuring 15.72 terabits per second (Tbps), according to Microsoft.… ...

Google Cloud said today it fended off what it believes was the largest Layer 7 distributed-denial-of-service attack ever seen, when an attacker attempted to disrupt one of its customers’ internet ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft mitigated a record 15.72 Tbps DDoS attack from Aisuru botnet Aisuru, a Mirai-class IoT botnet, controls 300,000+ compromised devices Microsoft warns DDoS attacks will grow as IoT and ...

Security experts have warned of an increase in hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks designed to overwhelm networks, after revealing the largest such effort to date peaked at 5.6 Terabits per second (Tbps).

Content delivery network provider Cloudflare Inc. revealed today that it has managed to detect and mitigate dozens of “hyper-volumetric” distributed denial-of-service attacks over the weekend of Feb.

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DDoS threats and defense: How certain assumptions can lead to an attack Your email has been sent This is a guest contributor article by Jag Bains, Vice President, Solution Engineering at Link11. Jump ...