South African cyber security experts are raising concerns over the increasingly low ransom demands being issued by cyber extortionists targeting local internet service providers (ISPs) with ...

A DDoS attack overwhelms a target server or network by flooding it with massive traffic from multiple compromised systems, making legitimate access nearly impossible. These network security threats ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cloudflare detected 8.3 million DDoS attacks in the last quarter, reflecting a 40% year-over-year (YoY) increase in threats to networks. Cloudflare’s Quarterly DDoS Threat Report saw a 15% increase ...

Microsoft says the attack, sourced from more than 500,000 compromised IPs, exposes deep weaknesses in home IoT and raises questions about enterprise DDoS readiness. Azure has blocked its largest DDoS ...

According to BleepingComputer, content delivery network Cloudflare recently recorded the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack ever measured. As of September 2025, Cloudflare is used by ...

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, ...

WESTFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NETSCOUT ® SYSTEMS, INC. (NASDAQ: NTCT), today released its latest research detailing the evolving Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack landscape. NETSCOUT ...

DDoS attacks are growing significantly. Nowadays, DDoS protection is a commodity service, and you can protect your web application from DDoS attacks almost entirely, or even fully, for free. However, ...

Cloudflare surveyed customers about DDoS attacks, and 29% claimed to have identified the sources of those attacks. Of those who identified the attackers, 63% pointed to competitors, the largest of ...