DDoS attacks are getting more complex and more sophisticated while also getting cheaper and easier to carry out as cyber criminals take advantage of the sheer number of insecure internet-connected ...

DDoS stands for distributed denial-of-service. The point of the attack is to inundate your website with traffic, to the point that it can't handle the influx of users and collapses under its own ...

DDoS attacks are increasingly taking down even the largest tech companies. Learn more Specops Software on these types of attacks and how you can protect your devices from being recruited into botnets.

And it came during a time when DDoS is surging, showing signs of increasing sophistication and being aimed against new kinds of targets. “In the world of cybersecurity threats, ...

DDoS attacks have skyrocketed 358% year-over-year, report says According to Cloudflare, 20.5 million DDoS attacks were thwarted in the first quarter of 2025. By Mikael Markander and Joel Lee ...

In 2020 a series of DDoS attacks targeted the New Zealand Stock Exchange, causing trading disruptions over multiple days . Elon Musk and former President Donald Trump.

DDoS attacks are typically associated with large traffic volumes and a popular notion is that the larger the attack, the more potent it is. But this is not always true. Application-layer (L7) attacks ...

DDoS threats and defense: How certain assumptions can lead to an attack Your email has been sent This is a guest contributor article by Jag Bains, Vice President, Solution Engineering at Link11 ...

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have the potential to cost businesses a lot of lost revenue that even the best web hosting providers can struggle to mitigate. They work by using a bot ...

Before this one, the largest-ever observed DDoS attack was 3.47 Tbps strong, and was mitigated by Microsoft in November 2021. Via PCMag More from TechRadar Pro ...

This isn't the first time the archive has been targeted by DDoS attacks, but this week's attacks are the latest in a string of bad news for the Internet Archive. The platform has been fighting a ...

Since at least the early hours of Sunday morning, Blizzard's Battle.net online service had been the target of an apparent DDoS attack, making it difficult, if not impossible, to play Diablo IV ...