As first revealed by KrebsOnSecurity in January 2017, the Mirai authors were two U.S. men who co-ran a DDoS mitigation ...

The specific models affected included the RT-AC3100, RT-AC3200, and RT-AX55. The latter remains one of the more popular Wi-Fi ...

A new botnet is preparing to take over the legacy of Mirai – only much stronger. A security expert was attacked at 6.3 ...

Forky’s Aisuru flexes digital muscle with record-baiting DDoS test shot KrebsOnSecurity just took a hit from a 6.3 terabit ...

Cloudflare says it blocked a 5.6Tbps DDoS attack in October 2024 The attack came from a Mirai botnet It included 13,000 IPs, and lasted 80 seconds Cloudflare has claimed it recently blocked the ...

"In April 2024, we even mitigated a record-breaking DDoS attack reaching ~840 Mpps ... it could result in a botnet capable of generating billions of packets per second. OVHcloud calculated ...

In an online interview, Meyer made the following points: This botnet is much larger than what we're used to seeing in DDoS attacks (the only precedent I have in mind is an attack from 2022 right ...

HTTPBot, first spotted in the wild in August 2024, gets its name from the use of HTTP protocols to launch distributed ...

This botnet is much larger than what we're used to seeing in DDoS attacks (the only precedent I have in mind is an attack from 2022 right after the Ukraine invasion, at ~60k bots, but not public).

A ‘perfect storm’ for hackers in 2025 has already impacted millions across the UK. Speaking to security experts and critical ...

PumaBot hijacks Linux IoT devices via SSH brute-force, fakes Redis services, and mines crypto using stealthy rootkits.

there are plenty of botnet operators out there who will rent out DDoS as a service. So, it's nigh impossible to figure out who’s actually behind a DDoS attack. How do DDoS attacks work?