Kimwolf is the latest reminder that the most dangerous botnets now grow quietly inside everyday consumer electronics. Security researchers say the Android-based network has already roped in roughly 1.

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are targeting smaller businesses and freelancers. Can using a VPN help?

Solana withstood a historic 6 Tbps DDoS attack without downtime, demonstrating resilience comparable to Tier-1 internet infrastructure. Layered defenses, QUIC, stake-weighted QoS, and local fee ...

Updates added to the end of the article. The Dark Storm hacktivist group claims to be behind DDoS attacks causing multiple X worldwide outages on Monday, leading the company to enable DDoS protections ...

Today, it's rare for a month to pass without reports of new distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks driven by geopolitical instability. Now, a single attack can include numerous countries and ...

TL;DR: Cloudflare recently blocked the largest recorded DDoS attack, peaking at 11.5 Tbps and 5.1 billion packets per second, originating from a UDP flood involving IoT and cloud providers like Google ...

Services at X Corp., formerly Twitter, were heavily disrupted today after the company was targeted in a distributed denial-of-service attack for which a pro-Palestinian hacking group has taken credit.

MOSCOW, June 21. /TASS/. The BRICS Games in Kazan are exposed on June 21 to a large-scale DDOS attack, with dozens of thousands IP addresses used by hackers to stop digital resources of event sites, ...

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 ...

A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack attempts to take down a website, computer or online service by flooding it with requests, depleting its capacity and affecting its ability to respond to ...

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 ...