The WireX botnet took the combined efforts of security researchers and vendors to hobble earlier this year, but the creators of malware used to enslave PCs to the network is back and has increased the ...

With a history spanning over 25 years, DDoS attacks are, at first glance, nothing new. However, under the surface, there is a rapidly evolving landscape with significant developments in recent years.

Cloudflare just announced on X that it blocked the highest DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack in history, which was an 11.5 Terabits per second DDoS attack that came as a UDP (User Datagram ...

Juniper Networks has added a new way for its anti-DDoS appliance to mitigate what’s known as massive UDP-based amplification attacks that typically work by exploiting compromised servers of different ...

Large-scale attacks designed to bring down Internet services by sending them more traffic than they can process keep getting bigger, with the largest one yet, measured at 7.3 terabits per second, ...

All users of Plex Media Server are urged to apply the hotfix, which directs their servers to respond to UDP requests only from the local network and not the public internet. Media company Plex has ...

What's in a DDoS attack? First of all, these attacks have changed a lot over time. Maybe not in terms of vectors, per se, but in terms of sophistication, for one thing. We remember the earlier, more ...

Cybercrime gangs are abusing Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) systems to bounce and amplify junk traffic as part of DDoS attacks, security firm Netscout said in an alert on Tuesday. Not all RDP ...

Domain Name Service (DNS) provider Dyn today provided new details about the massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Oct. 21 it suffered that disrupted major websites including Okta, CNN ...

In terms of straight numbers, there were fewer distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in 2021, and the average size of attacks also dropped. But the fact that there were 13% fewer DDoS attacks ...