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

The previous record was held by Mēris botnet, which launched an attack that spiked at 21.8 million requests per second. Mantis' record-breaking DDoS attack (Cloudflare) ...

Cloudflare, a web performance company, said that it stopped a record-breaking distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that reached 26 million requests per second last week (rps). A botnet of ...

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

In its newest report, Cloudflare traced the Oct. 29 DDoS to a botnet using a variant of Mirai malware to infect IoT devices. The resulting attack only lasted 80 seconds, but it could have been ...

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 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 ...

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

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

Cybersecurity researchers from Akamai have discovered a new botnet that is reportedly capable of launching 3.3 Tbps Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS ... the attack data volume could hit ...

There weren't really 3 million Internet-connected toothbrushes accessing the website of a Swiss company in a DDoS attack that did millions of dollars of damage. The toothbrush botnet was just a ...

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?