As the internet has become more accessible over the years, bad actors around the world have found it easier to use it to commit crimes and harass others. That's unfortunate — as much as the internet ...

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?

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 ...

The overall frequency of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks increased in 2016 thanks, in part, to Internet of Things botnets, according to information service provider Neustar. The company ...

The FIANNCIAL — Its name may not be very well known, but it is one of the most important companies on the global internet. Cloudflare suffered a major outage on Tuesday, November 18, causing ...

Gcore, the global edge AI, cloud, network, and security solutions provider, today announced the findings of its Q1-Q2 2025 Radar report into DDoS attack trends. DDoS attacks have reached unprecedented ...

Knowing the inner workings of botnets and their attack styles can help you formulate a defense -- or outlast an attack My friends Paul and Robin Laudanski at CastleCops have been under a huge DDoS ...

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 ...

What is a DDoS attack? If you've been playing an online game and experienced high latency, or even a drop in connection, you might've been the victim of a DDoS attack. These incidents can be highly ...

No it's not a summary of some new action movie or war documentary. Carpet-bombing and DNS water torture attacks are among the biggest trends in 2023 for distributed denial of service (DDoS), according ...

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Zayo Group, a leading global communications infrastructure provider, today released its bi-annual Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Insights Report, which found a ...