Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are growing in frequency and sophistication, thanks to the number of attack tools available for a couple of dollars on the Dark Web and criminal ...

DDOS mitigation company Global Secure Layer claims to have fielded the largest DDOS attack in recorded history, in terms of packets per second, which reportedly saw one unfortunate "Minecraft gaming ...

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.

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.… ...

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 ...

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 ...

Update added below with Fortinet's statement confirming our reporting and a statement from CH Media, who originally reported on the attack. A widely reported story that 3 million electric toothbrushes ...

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 ...

Cloudflare is a robust content delivery network (CDN) that specializes in providing protection against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Last month, Cloudflare blocked the largest DDoS ...

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 ...

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, ...

Let’s assume you already have a DDoS protection solution installed on premises. You have even run DDoS testing, identified potential weak links, and tweaked your DDoS protection configuration to the ...