The scale of the attack shows an ever-increasing amplification of distributed denial-of-service attempts, aided in part by the growing number of vulnerable or poorly secured IoT devices.

During a distributed denial-of-service campaign targeting organizations in the financial services, internet, and telecommunications sectors, volumetric attacks peaked at 3.8 terabits per second ...

The largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack to date peaked at 5.6 terabits per second and came from a Mirai-based botnet with 13,000 compromised devices.

“There appears to be a massive DDOS [Distributed Denial of Service] attack on 𝕏. Working on shutting it down,” Musk posted 18 minutes after the scheduled start time for the interview.

(CNN) — X owner Elon Musk claimed Monday that a distributed denial-of-service attack had overwhelmed the company’s servers, preventing him from beginning his interview with former President ...

Russia says DDoS attack disrupts Telegram, WhatsApp By Reuters August 21, 20246:43 AM PDTUpdated August 21, 2024 ...

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).

Services at X Corp., formerly Twitter, were heavily disrupted today after the company was targeted in a distributed denial-of-service attack for which a pro-Palestinian hacking group has taken credit.

Last Thursday, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) controversially shut down cellular service in its stations to curb the efforts of demonstrators protesting the police shooting death of Charles Blair ...

A security flaw in OpenAI’s ChatGPT application programming interface could be used to initiate a distributed denial-of-service attack on websites, according to a researcher. The discovery was ...