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 ...

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?

Elon Musk's social media platform X (formerly Twitter) experienced a DDoS attack, causing delays before a scheduled conversation with former U.S. President Donald Trump. The incident highlighted the ...

The DDoS-for-hire campaign exploits misconfigured Docker containers on AWS, using cloud-native environments for industrial ...

Ahead of his much-touted conversation with former US president Donald Trump, Elon Musk said his social media platform X was under a DDoS attack. The tech billionaire said that even though X had done ...

A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) cyber attack is one of the most basic and common ways of bringing a website 'down' without actually hacking into it. It occurs when far more traffic than a ...

Picture this: You're on a critical Monday morning video call with your team, delving into crucial project milestones. Suddenly, the call drops, everyone is disconnected, and your voice-over-IP (VoIP) ...

Krebs is thankfully back in business and has reported that “The source code that powers the “Internet of Things” (IoT) botnet responsible for launching the historically large distributed ...

Over the Labor Day weekend, Cloudflare says it successfully stopped a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 11.5 terabits per second (Tbps). This came only a few ...