SafeBreach found four Windows DoS flaws via RPC and LDAP, enabling stealth DDoS botnets. Microsoft patched in 2025.

Attackers have now also begun to use public cloud infrastructure to launch DDoS campaigns. In July, researchers revealed that hackers were exploiting a vulnerability (CVE-2014-3120) in open source ...

DDoS can also be a weapon for those engaged in cyber warfare. For example, the attacks were used during the conflict between Georgia and Russia against high-profile websites in both countries ...

DDoS attacks historically relied on volume and persistence. But if AI is embedded in the attacker's toolkit, the rules change ...

As it carries out a 51% attack on Monero, the Qubic mining pool is allegedly facing a DDoS attack believed to be coordinated ...

As part of an ongoing initiative targeting computer attack “booter” services, the Justice Department today announced the court-authorized seizure of 13 internet domains associated with these ...

Comparing DDoS to web application layer attacks, Akamai’s director of security technology and strategy, Richard Meeus, tells Computer Weekly that their frequency is “an order of magnitude ...

DDoS-for-hire services are now actively abusing misconfigured or out-of-date Datagram Transport Layer Security (D/TLS) servers to amplify Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (WABC) -- Rutgers University said Monday its computer network was taken down by a cyber attack, affecting its Internet access on campus and even its main website.

The Health Ministry and National Cyber Directorate are assessing damage after a DDoS attack on the computer system at the Kfar Shaul psychiatric hospital near Jerusalem. “As of now, no damage ...

In October 2020, we reported that ransomware gangs were beginning to utilize DDoS attacks against a victims' network or web site as an extra tool to force them to pay a ransom.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Users of the popular networking site Twitter could be the unwitting participants in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) computer attacks that are rendering Iranian government Web ...