Cloudflare’s Quarterly DDoS Threat Report saw a 15% increase quarter-over-quarter (QoQ) in Q3 2025, equivalent to nearly 3,780 attacks per hour, and corresponding to 170% of the DDoS attacks mitigated ...

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 ...

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are getting progressively more complex, with software-defined and cloud-driven infrastructures becoming tantalizing targets for threat actors relying on ...

The social network X suffered intermittent outages on Monday, a situation owner Elon Musk attributed to a “massive cyberattack.” Musk said in an initial X post that the attack was perpetrated by ...

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?

Cloudflare is a robust content delivery network (CDN) that specializes in providing protection against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Last month, Cloudflare blocked the largest DDoS ...

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 ...

Distributed denial-of-service attacks are “more powerful than ever,” with AI helping automate tasks and bypass CAPTCHA systems, according to Netscout researchers. Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) ...