DataDome stopped a 28M-request Flash DDoS in real time—no downtime or disruption for the $3B e-commerce platform under attack ...

DDoS traffic analysis can break down the firehose of junk traffic in different ways, including by listing the countries that had the most IP addresses involved in an attack. But one researcher ...

A DDoS attack is a malicious attempt to disrupt the normal web traffic of a targeted server, service or network by overwhelming the target or its surrounding infrastructure with a flood of ...

Reports then varied throughout the day, with outage reports dipping and then returning as the DDoS attack targeted X in ... websites by sending massive traffic their way. Previously known ...

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).

While Elon Musk claimed the “massive cyberattack” impacting X’s service had originated from Ukrainian IP addresses, security researchers note that this isn’t conclusive as attackers often ...

When it popped back up, Elon Musk said the site had been hit with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. “There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X,” Musk wrote.

Essentially, DDoS attacks are like traffic jams on a highway. The obvious sign that a DDoS attack is being carried out is ...

In a DDoS attack, malicious actors bombard a server with junk web traffic to overwhelm it, forcing it offline and leaving legitimate users unable to access it. Such crude forms of cyber attack are ...

All show a similar graph of user-reported issues, with only slight variations. X outage (Credit: Downdetector) The last time Musk acknowledged a DDoS attack on X was in August ahead of an X Spaces ...