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

The first step in an IoT botnet attack is to find a way to get into the target device. On the surface, every application ...

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 ...

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?

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 ...

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

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

"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 ...

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 couple of years ago, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google, and Cloudflare experienced a record-breaking DDoS attack. Botnet traffic, which has later found to be much smaller than any DDoS attack in ...