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 ...

Dark Storm claims responsibility for X DDoS attack. Update, March 12, 2025: This story, originally published March 11, has been updated with additional insight from multiple security experts regarding ...

Distributed denial-of-service attacks continue to challenge IT teams, overwhelming resources and disrupting services if left unchecked. Microsoft's Azure DDoS Protection is designed to address this ...

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?

Massive 31.4 Tbps DDoS attack breaks records: How the 'apex' of botnets could be weaponizing your home devices ...

Cloudflare mitigated a major attack on a telco which broke all previous records.

The largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack to date peaked at 5.6 terabits per second and came from a Mirai-based botnet with 13,000 compromised devices. The UDP-based attack occurred last ...

AISURU/Kimwolf launched a record 31.4 Tbps DDoS attack as 2025 saw 47.1M incidents, rising botnet scale, and Android device abuse.

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks come in many shapes and sizes, as do the myths surrounding them. These myths can center on motivations, DDoS attack vectors and techniques, mitigation ...