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 ...

Separate spinoffs of the infamous Mirai botnet are responsible for a fresh wave of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks globally. One is exploiting specific vulnerabilities in Internet of ...

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 ...

Cloudflare claims to have prevented record-breaking Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Last week, the internet architecture provider claimed to have blocked “hundreds” of hyper-volumetric ...

The second half of 2025 marked a pivotal shift in the world of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Organizations across the globe faced a perfect storm: Artificial intelligence (AI) matured ...

Warnings from security experts increase after reports of a 26 percent rise in cyberattacks in quarter three of 2024, highlighting a rising cybersecurity crisis, as businesses brace for even more of ...

DDoS attacks are one of the most prevalent types of cyber threats. They attempt to flood a website with traffic from different IP addresses across the world, in the hopes that it will crash. These ...

What is a DDoS attack and why should you care?Issued by DomainsJohannesburg, 30 Jun 2026 A DDoS attack does not need to steal customer data to hurt your business. (Image: Domains) A Distributed Denial ...

Mardi is a thought leader in Digital Journal’s Insight Forum (become a member). This article was co-authored by Lily Yao Cybersecurity is not just an IT issue anymore. It is a key part of running a ...

The Aisuru/Kimwolf botnet launched a new massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 31.4 Tbps and 200 million requests per second, setting a new record. The attack was part of ...